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Sun Jun 24 01:37:57 UTC 2001

>This from the SuSE Linux mail list may help :-)
>>>>> Forwarded message from "Lewis E. Wolfgang" <wolfgang at nosc.mil>
>Something is definitely rotten here.
>Whois reports:
>   Server Name: SLASHDOT.ORG.SUCKS.COMPARED.TO.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG
>   IP Address: 24.240.60.16
>   Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
>   Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
>   Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org
>
>   Domain Name: SLASHDOT.ORG
>   Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
>   Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
>   Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
>   Name Server: NS1.ANDOVER.NET
>   Name Server: NS2.ANDOVER.NET
>   Updated Date: 13-jun-2001                          
>
>I've never seen whois report two registrars, especially one that says
>"SLASHDOT.ORG.SUCKS.COMPARED.TO.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG"

There's nothing rotten there at all.  People have had the ability
to name their nameservers whatever they wanted for some time,
as long as it was one of their TLDs.  There have been quite a number
of my.domain.rulez.your.domain.sux.dude.we.rule.daves.org
type nameserver names for years.  Whois is just reporting
both matches (both things that contain slashdot.org in the
domain or nameserver that are in the database).

-george william herbert
gherbert at retro.com