Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN
Scott Gifford
sgifford at tir.com
Thu Jan 25 00:41:37 UTC 2001
"Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve at opaltelecom.co.uk> writes:
> Out of interest.. does anyone happen to know why rs.internic.net reports
> the following of microsoft.com?
>
> [rs.internic.net]
[ ... ]
> MICROSOFT.COM.HACKED.BY.HACKSWARE.COM
[ etc... ]
That's a fairly recent trick (which has been discussed here before);
the default Whois search is a substring search. Since anybody with a
domain can register their DNS servers with any registrar, the smartass
owner of 'hacksware.com' just named their nameserver:
MICROSOFT.COM.HACKED.BY.HACKSWARE.COM
which is a legitate name for a nameserver, and contains the substring
microsoft.com.
You can work around it by only searching domains (not nameservers):
whois 'domain microsoft.com'
Either funny or disturbing, depending on how you look at it. Perhaps
both . . .
-----ScottG.
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