via ArsTechnica's Sean Gallagher, comes an interesting DNS nugget, this time, focusing on efforts at OpenDNS to provide protective filtration at the name resolution level. Monikered NLPRank, it's an interesting solution to a vexing problem.

'O'Connor's approach, which is currently being tested by OpenDNS using live DNS query traffic, gets around the reputation problem by simply analyzing the domain name itself for sketchiness. It works in a way similar to natural language processing of any stream of text content.' - via ArsTechnica's Sean Gallagher