Nov 22 2013, 07:58 PM, updated 12y ago
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Before I explain why we are offering a free family safe DNS service for churches and other religious establishments, I’d like to highlight that MetaCert is not in the business of censoring the Web. Nor do we have an opinion with respect to what is and what isn’t appropriate for other people. I personally don’t have an opinion either.
We are not attempting to remove pornography from the web. And we are not trying to prohibit access to those who want it. As the founder and CEO of MetaCert, I’m Irish and you are therefore right to assume I was brought up Catholic. However, like most of the people I know from Ireland today, we don’t practice like we did when we were kids. As my good friend Seamas who’s no longer with us used to say to me (he was religious);
“Paul, you’re an a la carte catholic. You like to take from the menu whatever you like”.
And he was right. I’m not religious, but I do believe in a higher being – whatever that may be. I founded MetaCert because I think everyone has the right to access information on the web without being exposed to whatever content they deem inappropriate for themselves, or the people for whom they are responsible.
I receive at least 10 emails every day from men addicted to pornography, people involved in an accountability partner program and churches looking for an overall solution for their open wifi services. So I decided today, to announce that our family safe DNS service will be completely free to all religious establishments.
Free Family Safe DNS Service for Churches and all other religious establishments
Most of the people who have been in touch over the past while, have been looking for an alternative DNS service to that of OpenDNS. They usually have two reasons. OpenDNS is now quite expensive for non-profit organizations ($800 per year) and they don’t offer the level of protection against pornography that customers exptect.
Personally, I think OpenDNS is a good all round DNS service for families and schools. For those who want it, OpenDNS provides protection across 50 categories. They have indexed 1.6 million domains across 50 categories. MetaCert on the other hand, has indexed 7.2 million domains for pornography alone. We have labeled 20 other categories but these are only available when using our Chrome extension (and soon, our iPad browser).
So, if you want to block content related to say, sport, shopping and games, I recommend OpenDNS. If you want to block pornography, MetaCert is better than having OpenDNS, Norton, McAfee and Kaspersky rolled up into one software application.
The MetaCert DNS is the world’s most sophisticated method of blocking pornography without blocking access to innocent websites. It blocks over 700 million pages of sexually explicit content – or 35+ BILLION URLs. The biggest problem that MetaCert solves is the issue with ‘over-blocking on mass scale. MetaCert’s error rate of false positives is less than 0.3% – in simple terms, we don’t block innocent websites like every other service provider.
MetaCert Family Safe DNS
For most of our customers who reside in the US, the MetaCert Primary DNS is 184.169.223.35 and secondary DNS is 54.247.162.216. Customers based in Europe should switch these around.
While our DNS Service is free for home use and religious establishments, public wifi providers, ISPs and companies should contact our team should they wish to use our DNS service in their workplace, or sell it as a service to customers. Please contact our VP of Partnership, Sheetal Walsh for more information
When you have setup the DNS, you can test it to ensure it is working. To test, go to http://test3.metacert.com – if you get a warning page you know it’s working.
WHY METACERT?
MetaCert’s focus is on providing a safer Internet environment for kids who use smartphones and tablets, with a unique approach to blocking inappropriate and harmful content.
We have built a standalone iOS browser, an Android app and extensions for Firefox and Chrome as well as offering a DNS based solution that provides 7 to 10 times greater protection than OpenDNS.
We are unique in this space because we built a classification platform that has indexed more pornography than any other company in the world by an order of magnitude with our system classifying new content 24x7. We are the first company to classify down to the page level and we have the Industry's lowest error rate of false positives.
We are also unique because we are the first company to offer a real-time API service to OEMs, Wireless Carriers, Routers and ISPs. We are also the first company to build custom Android firmware for OEMs and Wireless Carriers to pre-load Internet Safety inside the device settings.
Official blog
Official website
We are not attempting to remove pornography from the web. And we are not trying to prohibit access to those who want it. As the founder and CEO of MetaCert, I’m Irish and you are therefore right to assume I was brought up Catholic. However, like most of the people I know from Ireland today, we don’t practice like we did when we were kids. As my good friend Seamas who’s no longer with us used to say to me (he was religious);
“Paul, you’re an a la carte catholic. You like to take from the menu whatever you like”.
And he was right. I’m not religious, but I do believe in a higher being – whatever that may be. I founded MetaCert because I think everyone has the right to access information on the web without being exposed to whatever content they deem inappropriate for themselves, or the people for whom they are responsible.
I receive at least 10 emails every day from men addicted to pornography, people involved in an accountability partner program and churches looking for an overall solution for their open wifi services. So I decided today, to announce that our family safe DNS service will be completely free to all religious establishments.
Free Family Safe DNS Service for Churches and all other religious establishments
Most of the people who have been in touch over the past while, have been looking for an alternative DNS service to that of OpenDNS. They usually have two reasons. OpenDNS is now quite expensive for non-profit organizations ($800 per year) and they don’t offer the level of protection against pornography that customers exptect.
Personally, I think OpenDNS is a good all round DNS service for families and schools. For those who want it, OpenDNS provides protection across 50 categories. They have indexed 1.6 million domains across 50 categories. MetaCert on the other hand, has indexed 7.2 million domains for pornography alone. We have labeled 20 other categories but these are only available when using our Chrome extension (and soon, our iPad browser).
So, if you want to block content related to say, sport, shopping and games, I recommend OpenDNS. If you want to block pornography, MetaCert is better than having OpenDNS, Norton, McAfee and Kaspersky rolled up into one software application.
The MetaCert DNS is the world’s most sophisticated method of blocking pornography without blocking access to innocent websites. It blocks over 700 million pages of sexually explicit content – or 35+ BILLION URLs. The biggest problem that MetaCert solves is the issue with ‘over-blocking on mass scale. MetaCert’s error rate of false positives is less than 0.3% – in simple terms, we don’t block innocent websites like every other service provider.
MetaCert Family Safe DNS
For most of our customers who reside in the US, the MetaCert Primary DNS is 184.169.223.35 and secondary DNS is 54.247.162.216. Customers based in Europe should switch these around.
While our DNS Service is free for home use and religious establishments, public wifi providers, ISPs and companies should contact our team should they wish to use our DNS service in their workplace, or sell it as a service to customers. Please contact our VP of Partnership, Sheetal Walsh for more information
When you have setup the DNS, you can test it to ensure it is working. To test, go to http://test3.metacert.com – if you get a warning page you know it’s working.
WHY METACERT?
MetaCert’s focus is on providing a safer Internet environment for kids who use smartphones and tablets, with a unique approach to blocking inappropriate and harmful content.
We have built a standalone iOS browser, an Android app and extensions for Firefox and Chrome as well as offering a DNS based solution that provides 7 to 10 times greater protection than OpenDNS.
We are unique in this space because we built a classification platform that has indexed more pornography than any other company in the world by an order of magnitude with our system classifying new content 24x7. We are the first company to classify down to the page level and we have the Industry's lowest error rate of false positives.
We are also unique because we are the first company to offer a real-time API service to OEMs, Wireless Carriers, Routers and ISPs. We are also the first company to build custom Android firmware for OEMs and Wireless Carriers to pre-load Internet Safety inside the device settings.
Official blog
Official website
Sure Norton and OpenDNS offer similar service too, but thing is Metacert while relatively a newcomer, its DNS primary focus is on pornographic, suggestive material exclusively and with very low false detection rate. Here is their definition of pornography. It won't blindly blocked everything, for example material that fall under health, medical purpose for examples can still be viewed. Your favourite K-Pop site won't be blocked.
As a nature of DNS, obviously it is limited to just blocking domain, like many others. If you're a parent or want complete control, you can add their extension to any Chromium-based browser as well for maximum parental controls (customizable for both kids and adults). It can blocks malware, spyware, illegal activities, file-sharing, offensive sites or completely block any suggestive content (say goodbye to most entertainment site) and many more based on your preference.
Tested it for my home network since yesterday. Didn't suffer any slow-down at all. Beside the privacy policy is nothing intrusive like OpenDNS and NortonDNS. This to me is an important consideration as well. I don't need any company (after Google) to spy on my activity.
This post has been edited by Angel of Deth: Nov 23 2013, 09:36 PM
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