Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet.
With DNS, it's possible to control key components of Internet navigation. Google already controls search, they are quickly gaining market share to control the browser, and when you put in DNS, it becomes the trifecta of complete navigational control.
Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.
All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.
Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.
And the more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.
Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.
If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.
The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.