One site in London, UK is hardly adequate for continental Europe customers; for efficiency reasons, as well as improving redundancy, it is suggested OpenDNS should add sites in other locations. France is hereby suggested.
People from other parts of the World will certainly have their desiderata, too.
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People from other parts of the World will certainly have their desiderata, too.
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Comments
I'd love to have another server in Europe, especially in Central Europe like Germany or Austria.
Naturally, OpenDNS will welcome public endorsements made by its members, no doubt about it.
Notwithstanding the fact that OpenDNS is an organisation engaged in business, its friendly companionship shows caring, probably the most powerful business advantage, alongside an openness to users' ideas.
Not once but several times the input provided here in the Idea Bank have been pursued to a conclusion, made not by a few zealots and fanboys, but instead everyone with enough enthusiasm to share and discuss an idea. OpenDNS' employees and staff were welcome, not to express admiration, but on the contrary, to attend to by mutual agreement any service lacking and possible improvements.
It couldn't be conducted in a better way than where they welcome us simple users to join them in each vote and freely discuss the issue together. It has a true meaning of dynamism.
OpenDNS' team votes not only encourage this kind of discussion between themselves, but also listening closer to what users usually don't say in the forums.
They know that building a sense of community is easy. It is maintaining this sense of community and dynamism that is difficult.
If a region calls for OpenDNS, - make it larger such as Europe, Brazil, Australia - , most certainly an attempt to help will be forthcoming.
What makes that invitation appear however, is not evangelism, it is the service itself.
You can speak about OpenDNS for ages, but if even English speakers have difficulty in understanding the OpenDNS website, read through the knowledge base, follow the forums... let us stop a minute and try to imagine countries where English is a third or a second language of a few.
Latin America and Central Europe are more than asking for urgent action...
Latin America!
Im using OpenDNS in some clients, but only those that require domain blocking, cause the 300+ ms response time is just too much compared to the 30ms of the local ISP servers.
Just wanted to say that we're watching this (and related) Ideas closely in our planning. The next datacenter brought online will be in Chicago, Illinois, USA in a matter of weeks. After that, still evaluating what's next.
i think that in Germany it would a opendns server for european users
We all agree that localisation and internationalisation are necessary to OpenDNS.
"The former is modifying the service to fit the requirements of a particular locale. This process includes translating the user interface and documentation, customising features (if necessary), and testing the translated product to ensure that it still works."
"The latter is a further step on localisation, usually related to infrastructure to support different culture interaction and communication between the user and a service; any localised website must let users sign in and share the db, despite the mother language, and even, choose the language of preference." (Mozilla project)
Despite the small difference in the idea approach, please note that there are currently at least three ideas, just to name a few, that are duplicates:
1 - ) Multilingual service;
2 - ) OpenDNS localisation teams; and,
3 - ) New OpenDNS websites wanted
It doesn't make sense keeping choosing fronts.
The staff should merge both ideas as suggested here at http://ideabank.opendns.com/story.php?title=Mark_duplicate_ideas_and_delete_one_of_them_or_merge_them
We could be already starting the localisation project, gathering the participation of anyone interested. Obviously it will bring a multilingual service and in due course of time more websites. That's the true meaning of localisation (L10n) and internationalisation (i18n).
Please, let us stay united in our goals.
(based on Ubuntu's brainstorm - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com - and on Mozilla Localization Project - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/ )
written by kieranmullen 599 days ago
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That is great that the international community wants opendns in other countries. However they need to find out how they can make money before they enter into a country so dont hold your breath... it may take awhile.
Is everyone so naive that they think a company should provide all of this for free?
Latin America!
Im using OpenDNS in my network only because I require domain blocking.
The response time is too much high!
Brazil is largest country in Latin America. Also shows an amazing growth in quantity of Internet users. Also local DNS services, by Internet providers, is poor, slow and often neglected.
OpenDNS in Brazil!
OpenDNS rules!!
Next site should be in Brazil!!
written by marcusbrarj 537 days ago
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OpenDNS in Brazil now! DNS pro Brasil já!
written by eversonamancio 534 days ago
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Brazil is the biggest Country of South America.
It has a lot of internet users who needs OpenDNS servers locally ASAP.
written by phaelmalini 518 days ago
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The next site OpenDNS must be in Brazil!!!
We need OpenDNS Servers in Brazil!!!
OpenDNS in Brazil NOW!!!
written by andrepinto 510 days ago
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We really need servers in Brazil, since we could help all Latin America.
We really need you to adopt a site in Brazil or any place of Latin America
I vote to see OpenDNS in Brazil, urgently :-)
In Brazil because this location (Latin America) really and urgently needs. The DNS systems here is very obsolete and poor, and Brazil offers the best infrastructure in all Latin America to the installation of OpenDNS.
Brazil or other country of latin america! Wow!
written by akhenatoni 447 days ago
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OpenDNS In Brazil !!
This Is a Good Choice !!
written by carloshenrique 428 days ago
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OpenDNS in Brazil!!!
Would be great to our country and Latin America
written by marcoscunha 405 days ago
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We need more DNS servers inside latin america, mainly on Brazil due to be the biggest country with the most of internet users. And we have just one bridge, located in Miami, between us and the world. Please, put a bunch of servers here. =)
written by iankoleite 394 days ago
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OpenDNS In Brazil!! And no more discussion :D
OpenDNS in Brasil would help whole South America
You should install server in Latim America (Brazil).
Like you can see many people from Brazil wanna the server here. Please put it in Brazil.
A OpenDNS server in Brazil would be very nice!!!
+1 for australia :-) we had an issue a few months ago where opendns was failing to access clients DNS due to a temporary routing failure. as a result, we couldn't access a whole pile of local websites because of a U.S. based routing problem.
Brazil, the largest nation in Latin America, the fifth largest in the world;
Sixth largest population in the world;
Portuguese, the sixth most spoken language; with some of the largest cities, like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro;
With a growing number of internet users (currently 23,7 million)
Well, I think the comments show the needs of Brazil and Latin America for OpendDNS sites in order to improve the Internet infrastructure of this entire continent that is growing day-by-day.
Although most Brazilians do not speak English very well, OpenDNS will be rapidly propagated among the country, because network administrators and normal users do understand written English as well the network challenges like the need of OpenDNS site located near of our ISPs.
In the moment, ISPs located in Brazil depends totally on a unique router installed in Miami by the old Embratel(Communication company). It is ridiculous! Furthermore, the DNS caches maintained by Brazilian ISPs are stale, incomplete and fail when they try to communicate with each other :-(
Cordially,
Jocafi
I would suggest setting up a server in Brazil or in another country in Latin America such as Uruguay, since all Internet users located in this continent would benefit from it.
My vote would be for Brazil!
The reason I think no need to repeat, the friend from up there (Jocafi) has said.
Thanks!
written by yodaisalive99 176 days ago
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Have you guys thought about Singapore? It sits in the middle of Asia with practically most fibre running to it from all of asia. and now to Africa!?!
written by andrepinto 166 days ago
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Do we have any news regarding this? Latin america would have better performance if brazil had a local server.
Please consider a new site in Brazil. The existing OpenDNS servers response times are too high from here (about 200ms). A local DNS server (ip address 200.221.11.100) usually takes under 40ms to response.
written by yodaisalive99 132 days ago
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Singapore or Hong kong. Would cover most of Asia.
written by carloshenrique 128 days ago
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Brazil has a serious problem with dns servers (Speedy - Telefonica users know what i'm talking about)
OpenDNS in Brazil now! :D
Would be great to our country and latin america
Eu acho melhor que seja no Brasil, pois além de ajudar ao país a evoluir com isso, poderemos ainda ajudar os demais países do continente sul-americano. Realmente, termos apenas um link de DNS com o resto do mundo, via Estados Unidos, é muito ruím. Fora a Lentidão que é para resolver as coisas. VOTO SIM PARA O OpenDNS NO BRASIL!!!!
I Think it will be better here in Brazil, because, it will not only help the country grow to evolve more, but will also help the whole south-american continent itself to have a better DNS service. Really, just one DNS link to the rest of the world, passing through the U.S. is really a pain in the back! Out with the SNAIL DNS. I VOTE YES FOR OpenDNS HERE IN BRAZIL!!!!!!!
Brazil would be the best South American representant for OpenDNS. Put it there!
Brazil is largest country in Latin America. Also shows an amazing growth in quantity of Internet users. Also local DNS services, by Internet providers, is poor, slow and often neglected.
OpenDNS in Brazil!
written by samuelgrandi 103 days ago
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OpenDNS in Latin America, South America, please.
i live in Brazil.
An OpenDNS server is needed at south east Europe please !!
In Italy or Greece to cover east europe and north Africa.
written by luizinhoref 54 days ago
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Brazil is the best choice for OpenDNS server in L.A.
written by fastoffice 35 days ago
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Central/Southern Europe! e.g. Italy (Milan), Germany, Austria...
Why not let users volounteer to host a DNS server to expand service ina P2P style?
written by renato.cabral 25 days ago
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Please consider a new site in Brazil. The existing OpenDNS servers response times are too high from here (about 200ms)
We have turned up 3 new data centers in the United Stats (Dallas, Miami and Los Angeles) and one in Amsterdam. We will be turning up a new server in Hong Kong by the end of 2009 with plans to add additional servers next year. See http://www-files.opendns.com/img/opendns_network_map.png for details.
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If you're going to expand perhaps you should not do it in France and instead go for greater geographic difference. UK and France aren't exactly far apart.