ClearCloud DNS To Be Discontinued

I tried both Norton and ClearCloud and Norton DNS is not that good compare to ClearCloud. If a software is good thus I would not mind buying it.

Thanks.

 

there's always dyn's internet guide, which has finally received some feature enhancements (there's a beta feature to allow you to bypass the block page to load the blocked site) and barracuda's categorical stuff has improved a bit, but it's still a PITA to try and get a FP addressed.

 

Does it sound like they care about how bad we want it.. maybe we depend a lot on its filtering capability.. but it cost a lot of money, even more than the trust and love of the people for the product. I for one wish them luck on their future business goals..

 

I've been away from Wilders for a while, but I just dropped by to express my dissapointment with GFI. After they acquired Sunbelt, all the good stuff happened to vanish. I'm still a happy VIPRE user, and I'm still running CC DNS. But, I'm sure time will come when neither one will be alive. Oh well, I still have 1 year left on my subscription, hopefully they won't kill it before it expires. Yeah, right... ¬¬
GFI, could you GTFO please?

 

I'm afraid you're right. Charging for a DNS service that others provide largely for free (and monetize through redirects) I'm not sure would have covered the cost.

OpenDNS makes their money by their partnership with Yahoo. They bring millions of redirects to Yahoo (through nxdomain redirects) and Yahoo pays them millions of dollars. But you need millions of users...

 

This is how I see it. First, people will try to put their hands on something that's free. Hey, I do that. If I can have something for free, then I'll get it. Specially, if this free has quality, and that perhaps paid-for products lack.

If I cannot get it for free, I'll see if I can pay it by some other mean, for example translate to my language. I did it for a couple apps I considered worth paying for. I did it, because I couldn't afford to pay it, with money. So, I paid with translations.

Now, CC is not the same as those apps, obviously. This means that, in order for you to make it lucrative, you need to follow a different approach: Search engine redirection. This way, people get it for free, but pay by being redirected to that search engine.

As I said, I see no problems with it, as long as it is a quality service, which in all honest I say CC was. Except for this or that annoyance from time to time. Something that could be improved if it were to be continued.

Now, to get people to use your DNS service, people need to know about it. The start point are the geeky users. If they like it, they will recommend it and even deploy it to other people's systems. I've done that with CC since it came out. I know of other cases, where other users did the same.

Is this enough? No, it isn't. Why not? Sunbelt/GFI isn't as widely known as Symantec, for example. Correct? I think so.

What does this mean? You need to advertise it. I'm pretty sure your/GFI marketing department would know the best route to achieve that.

But, to make something lucrative, you need to advertise it, somehow. You need to invest, otherwise it isn't a well thought-out plan. It's a plan doomed to fail. This is what happened with CC, IMHO. Jugding by the way you talked about it.

Let's put it like this: If you want people to know about your product, you need to reach out for them. You can't expect them to reach out for you, if they don't know you.

If you guys can do this, and considering CC was a great service, then all the ingredients exist to make of CC a success. IMHO.

 

did you see the post from alex 1-2 pages back? if you missed it, go back and read it.

 

Interesting reading... but I still can't see why would they discontinue their "free line" now that they are supposed to have a bigger budget. Also the development did slow down, I have no doubts about that, and I'm not guessing, true experience here.

 

Just encountered my first FP with NortonDNS, nothing severe, just being blocked from viewing an image.

The good thing about NortonDNS is you can see WHY a site is blocked: http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=i13.photobucket.com The image is 19/43 on VirusTotal.

A malicious image was hosted and it got blocked it would seem, I sent off an email to the nortondns address in hope it is the correct location to get these issues solved.

 

Cool deal about the NortonDNS elapsed. I've been using DynDNS but their block page is not as nice.

 

Anybody know if there is a Comodo Secure DNS test page?

 

I couldn't find any. Not even at COMODO Secure DNS page.

 

Hi m00nbl00d
I figured out a good way of testing...
I simply went the the Comodo Forum Report Blocked Sites You Believe Are Safe Here and tried connecting to some of the more recent submissions.

I got to see Comodo's block page.
And I also learned that clicking on the override selection at the bottom of the block page that says,
"Disregard this warning and continue (Not Recommended)", doesn't override the block.
At least not on the one I tested.

 

With Comodo's DNS how are malware sites treated that were issued certificates by Comodo? Are those still blocked or not?

 

Good question!

 

Living dangerously...

 

That's one of the things I also like in Norton DNS. I also like the fact it's available in my language, because I believe it will bring more interest to my relatives to read the warning, and get the info at safeweb.norton.com why it's being blocked.

 

How is NortonDNS as far as speed goes?

 

According to the DNS benchmark test on GRC it was on par with CC for me. Depends solely on location.

 

for me, it is as fast, if not faster, than my ISP DNS.

 

I got no response from the email so I made a thread on the Norton forums. It's not as convenient as clicking a report FP button but overall it was actually addressed faster than the average CC FP.

 

Anyone know the answer to this?

 

Does anybody tried DynDNS ?

 

How does this compare with sending an e-mail?

I tried DyDNS, its malware protection is lower than Norton and ClearCloud. Also has many FPs.

 

I am currently going with the crowd with Norton DNS but am wondering if anyone has tried DNS Advantage? - http://www.dnsadvantage.com/ - Any feedback is appreciated.