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Re: WHOIS microsoft.com
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:00:10 -0800
- Subject: Re: WHOIS microsoft.com
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <NUTMEGJswFCHOzyfyz50000080a@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
Dave Korn wrote:
> > The domain info looks fine to me. If you mean people clogging up the
> > WHOIS registry with various joke domains containing the text
> > "microsoft.com" in them then that has been going on for years
> > and years.
> >
> > Brian
>
> Ah, I hadn't seen it before. And yeh, the domain info I notice does have reg
> lock on it. There was an outage of their main website at the time I posted,
> which prompted me to look up their whois, so I put two and two together and got
> five....
Try it on aol.com and apple.com too. Here's a nanae thread from 2000
that references it, it was the earliest I could find on usenet:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.email/browse_thread/thread/c80a91c8d2ed4a2c?tvc=2
Brian