About the only thing the Google Public DNS beats OpenDNS in is the IP addresses for the servers. Are you working on getting an easier to remember/share address for OpenDNS? How'd you end up with the current ones?
— Asked by Anonymous
Google made a very expensive deal with Level3 to get those IPs. They were already controlled by Level(3) and have been sub-assigned to Google.
Even more impressive is that the block they came from 8/8 (as we refer to it) is a block that had previously almost never been allowed to have smaller announcements made in the routing table, but Google got Level(3) to bend on this policy.
Anyways, we’re sticking with our IPs, been using them for so long. They were in our initial allocation from ARIN, the organization that manages names and numbers for North America: http://ws.arin.net/whois/?queryinput=208.67.222.222
