dweekly asked: Why do I love you so damn much?
It’s my charming personality, I’m sure — but don’t let Cassie know your true feelings for me or she might get jealous.
Anonymous asked: Are you related to Janice Ulevitch?
Yep, she’s my cousin!
Anonymous asked: Are you glad you went to college considering you probably could have skipped it?
DEFINITELY — In college I met a diverse (relative to my high school) range of people and became involved in a tremendous number of activities.
College can also be a time when you are singularly and selfishly focused on self-improvement without any concern for anything else. As a result, I joined a fraternity, was involved in campus events, started a company that provided my employment when I graduated and met a tremendous group of friends who I consider dear to me to this day.
I find that the only people who don’t recommend college is the people who have a degree and have the luxury of saying it doesn’t matter. It’s rare to find someone who didn’t go to college saying it doesn’t matter.
Anonymous asked: David, @OpenDNS would you consider hiring someone how would be a remote workforce? ie Full time work from home?
Yes, we already have remote workers. We won’t let geography get in the way of great talent.
Anonymous asked: Can you make it so DNS isn't so much of a black magic? Seriously, I've been trying to refresh this domain's AAAA records for a while and it doesn't work! Googled for a solution, one site took me to another and here I am complaining on someone's tumblr. Sorry 'bout that!
We’ll work on it. Agreed that the existing authoritative DNS solutions are not up to par.
Anonymous asked: You say that OpenDNS has been profitable since 2007. Is this based directly on ad money, and how has the addition of Deluxe and Enterprise to your 'features' changed this. Also, what kind of hardware does it take to serve up 26 billion requests per day? And, if the next server is going to be in or around Asia, what kind of response do you expect in terms of requests, and how do you advertise OpenDNS is those countries?
You asked too many questions at once. Break them down into separate questions please.
Anonymous asked: Now that DNSSEC is fully implemented in root zone, when do you plan to put OpenDNS validating the DNS results using it?
Yes.
Anonymous asked: Hi- you mentioned to techcrunch that taking on additional funding was a way to be opportunistic- can you elaborate a little on what you plan to do for the company with additional funding?
See here: http://www.businessinsider.com/opendns-2010-10
Anonymous asked: When do you plan to make a dns mirror in india ?
In 2011.
Anonymous asked: how much time did you spend building this website? and where is this askign widgetizo coming from?
About 10 minutes. I’m using the scaffold theme and tumblr. Tumblr provides the asking mechanism, too.
The Q&A thing could be a lot better, but it’s better than nothing.
Anonymous asked: So what does it take to get an internship at OpenDNS these days?
I was busy earlier this year and dropped the ball on a couple emails from folks asking for internships…TERRIBLY SORRY!
But… we do have a great internship program here and we’ve got about 4 interns here this summer and are happy to continue with interns throughout the rest of the year. We generally pay interns and are happy to help you get course credit for your work here.
You need to be awesome though. And be prepared to send a transcript or code showing your awesomeness. We do have non-engineering internships, too. :-)
You can email me david at opendns dot com.
Anonymous asked: Do you still dis-like Rodney Joffee? I see that you started a partnership with Neustar so I am assuming things are going well between you two!
I’ve never disliked Rodney. And on the contrary, I’m not sure I’ve made it easy for him to like me. But he’s been tremendously successful, he’s innovated in the state of the art and I have a lot of respect for what he’s accomplished both as a businessman and a technologist.
Anonymous asked: I understand the Reid Hoffman love, but what's to love about Michael Arrington? The latter has always seemed like a blowhard to me. Do explain why you feel differently (I think).
Note: I do not know any of these quasi-celebs personally, so my judgment is based purely on their public persona; no offense intended to anyone.
Mike has been in the valley a long time. He’s seen a lot, and better still, he’s done a lot too. He’s been a CEO (pool.com) and a GC to a number of companies, and helped many others while he was a lawyer at WSGR.
I think he’s created an amazingly useful company out of TechCrunch. He’s helped tons of people and companies get exposure. Sure, he’s opinionated and occasionally likes to stirr up trouble, but it’s effective and he’s created something unquestionably worthy of my respect. Plus, he’s a great interviewer.
Anonymous asked: Hello David
I am a student, and I love networking (Physical layer), connectivity technologies and DNS, web hosting stuff. Can you guide me on how proceed next with these interests?
Get a job at an ISP or in a networking role at a startup that runs it’s own network like OpenDNS. Do not get a “networking job” at a company where the network isn’t core to the business, or you’ll just be a packet pusher, rather than learning the state of the art.
Anonymous asked: What is your opinion of wafflesicles? (http://bit.ly/bUWQM3) Great thing, or greatest thing, since sliced bread?
Brilliant. Great for dipping. But is there enough waffle?