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OpenDNS is an American company providing Domain Name System (DNS) resolution services—with features such as phishing protection, optional content filtering, and DNS lookup in its DNS servers—and a cloud computing security product suite, Umbrella, designed to protect enterprise customers from malware, botnets, phishing, and targeted online attacks.
The article reads like there is an typo-correction feature shipped by using the OpenDNS DNS-resolvers. This isn't technically true, as the typo-feature is implemented by using HTTP redirects only - it has nothing to do with DNS whatsoever as not existing domains all resolve to the very same IP address - see dig @208.67.222.222 foo.ogr +short.
A public recursive name server (also called public DNS resolver) is a name server service that networked computers may use to query the Domain Name System (DNS), the decentralized Internet naming system, in place of (or in addition to) name servers operated by the local Internet service provider (ISP) to which the devices are connected.