G2

Verified User in Telecommunications

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/1/2023

"Best DNS platform I ever used"

5/5

What do you like best about Control D?

Onboarding was extremely easy, deployed ControlD on ~80 devices in a matter of minutes (with some basic API scripting). UI is very easy to understand, and looks rather unique relative to other DNS services I used before (dnsfilter, umbrella). Despite the simplicity of the UI, the features are quite powerful. Not doing anything revolutionary, just blocking malware, social networks, and porn, and it works great.

Fiddling with their "redirection" feature which masks the IP of the client from various services, it's pretty cool, but have yet to find a use case for it except for some of our marketing folks that really love it because they don't need to use a VPN anymore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Control D?

Pretty much nothing. The Analytics feature could use some improvement to provide better insights, but I spoke to Yegor and it's already on their roadmap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Control D solving and how is that benefiting you?

We wanted to block malicious domains from resolving, pretty standard stuff. Additionally block some time-wasting services so people actually get some work done :)

Also gain visibility on what things are being accessed by our staff and make sure we don't have any misbehaving devices on our network that do things they shouldn't be doing. We use pfsense on the network and the DNS daemon they have works quite well, and was very easy to install - 1 command to copy/paste. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.