This is what I live for.

It’s Monday, July 2nd. OpenDNS is absolutely on fire. By 8am this morning, I think there were at least a dozen folks buzzing around the office hard at work.

We had an amazing second quarter, and our customers love us. 90% of our customers renew each year, which is unheard of in our industry. I know there are still a lot of people who don’t understand what we do (watch this for an explanation, finally: http://bit.ly/OpenDNSin90 ) or how we will become the largest security company in the world, but some are starting to figure it out, and that’s really exciting.

We recently had a customer ask if we were public, so he could buy stock. Well, we’re not yet, but we’re on a trajectory that makes that a real possibility if we wanted to be (we don’t, for now).

Today, one of our customers tweeted: “@opendns just put on its big boy pants with Insights.” In some respects, I agree – but it’s just the start.

We have investors who are great to work with, and terrific new ones knocking on our door. We have great employees, and great new ones being interviewed.

For six years we’ve been building this company, and pieces of the puzzle are starting to fall into place. As we look to hire our 100th employee, open up two new offices, bring up a bunch of new datacenters, and launch an entirely new service, I can hardly contain myself.

This is what I live for.