Limit on number of domains added to Whitelist

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gharrison

June 16, 2013 15:29

There is a limit on the number of domains that can be added to the whitelist on the Netgear Parental Control settings.  Can't add any more than 25 domains to the list.  This is way to small a number.  Can it be increased?

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  cervezafria June 16, 2013 20:12

  You can open a Home VIP account for 19.95 USD (annually) which supports 50 total whitelisted/blacklisted domains.

  Otherwise, be "smart" in whitelisting (or blacklisting)... keeping your domain name as simple as possible... for example instead of whitelisting "news.google.com" and "mail.google.com", consider whitelisting "google.com" (and not "www.google.com").

  Consider unblocking categories when too many whitelisted domains are required.

  And, take advantage of your router's blocking. For example my router can block Youtube simply by blocking "youtube" as a keyword.

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  gharrison June 16, 2013 20:38

  Yes, do all that, but its difficult to not exceed 25 given some of the domains that are blocked. I'm in the UK and the domain rightmove.co.uk is identified as "classifieds" which I block. However, classifieds that I am concerned with are personal ads, not commercial or business ads. To me there is no issue with rightmove.co.uk. There are lots of domains like that that use up my 25.

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  rotblitz June 16, 2013 22:48

  As cervezafria said, OpenDNS VIP would be the most viable option. Another would be to open a support ticket to ask for more whitelist entries.

  And there are other options like local software, a local proxy or DNS server or the hosts file to achieve what you want.

  E.g. with the following hosts file entry rightmove.co.uk is accessible, not matter what OpenDNS settings are:

  146.101.19.102 rightmove.co.uk www.rightmove.co.uk

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  Brian Hartvigsen June 24, 2013 19:47

  OpenDNS and Netgear Live Parental Control services are not the same.  So purchasing a OpenDNS VIP service would not give additional quota limits on the Netgear Live Parental Control services.  There is currently no way to increase the number of blacklist or whitelist entries for Netgear Live Parental Controls.

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  joscode February 07, 2014 05:35

  It will simply not work for me. I will be shopping for another service and cannot recommend this product. A 25 quota is so restrictive, and not realistic for a family of 6.
  

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  rotblitz February 07, 2014 13:53

  "I will be shopping for another service and cannot recommend this product."

  Then don't forget to come back to tell us about this other service.  We users are always after something better than what we already have.  ;-)

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  w42 June 15, 2014 16:12

  I've had a Home VIP account for the past couple of years.  However, today I reached my limit of 50 whitelisted sites.

  Based on my usage as a parent, I think the set of 50 sites is too limited.

  What do I have to do to bump that up to 100 sites?

  Thanks,

  -George

   

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  rotblitz June 15, 2014 17:43

  "What do I have to do to bump that up to 100 sites?"

  Try with opening a support ticket requesting this, as I said above already.

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  Chris Frost June 15, 2014 18:53

  @George we have responded to your Support Ticket (96216). I am now closing the thread for further comments since the initial question has been answered. 

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