Been playing with the mildly useful OpenDNS for sometime. It is a free DNS service with some nice innovations.

Well, today marks the day OpenDNS got really cool!

Imagine del.icio.us for your DNS that cover your entire network and/or any computer you assign their DNS service to.

Today we give you shortcuts, marking the first time you’ve ever had control over how your address bar behaves. Shortcuts are a cool way to use a short word for a long address.

Shortcuts will change the way you navigate the Internet. Unlike keyword-based systems in the past, shortcuts are yours. You create them and you decide where they go.

Without getting technical, here are some examples of what you can do with shortcuts. You can make a shortcut for ‘mail’ go to gmail.com, mail.yahoo.com, your webmail or anywhere else you’d like. You can make a shortcut go to a website, start an IM conversation, initiate a phone call, and more. Our goal is to help you navigate the Internet in the easiest and fastest way possible.

There are a few different ways to create shortcuts. You can create them in your account, you can create them on the OpenDNS Guide pages, and you can create them on any other Website using a bookmarklet.

(Via OpenDNS Blog.)

Sure some of this could be done using geek hacks of network config files. But I could see the bulk of my frequently used bookmarks easily offloaded to this service.

Yet more metadata being moved into the network. I hope an API is in the works to let developers build cool tools around this service.

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