Yahoo whois record..

[mortario]

I was playing around with the whois script and check this out:
Yahoo whois record is telling everybody to use Google search.



yahoo.com is unavailable


Whois Server Version 1.3

Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

YAHOO.COM.WANADOODOO.COM
YAHOO.COM.SG
YAHOO.COM.PINECRAFTERS.COM
YAHOO.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
YAHOO.COM.IS.LAME.SO.USE.GOOGLE.AND.VISIT.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG
YAHOO.COM.BR
YAHOO.COM

To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.

>>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:07:27 EST <<<

The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
Registrars.


Run it again:
http://www.dnlook.com/whois/whois.pl?fqdn=yahoo&tld=.com

 

[DotComster]

Try it with microsoft.com instead of yahoo

 

[mortario]

LOL .. :laugh: that's funny dotcomster. Has it been like that for a while?

 

[Drewbert]

>Has it been like that for a while?

An old trick.

It's just your WHOIS client providing a wildcard response. Nothing sinister.

I had a whole whack of funny ones up for microsoft.com, but I'd registered name servers IP's in 192.168/24 when doing it, and they all got deleted when Verisign cleaned up the NS records in the CNO zone files. :^(

When I get some time, I'll put them back up.

 

[tonyk2000]

I would like to better understand what happens
Is it really whois client? I tried telnet to verisign whois and got exactly the same. verisign whois should inform me about the registrar and their whois server address. But instead they report this. I did not use any whois client to get this:

> telnet whois.verisign-grs.com whois
Trying 198.41.3.54...
Connected to whois.verisign-grs.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
yahoo.com

Whois Server Version 1.3

Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

YAHOO.COM.WANADOODOO.COM
YAHOO.COM.SG
YAHOO.COM.PINECRAFTERS.COM
YAHOO.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
YAHOO.COM.IS.LAME.SO.USE.GOOGLE.AND.VISIT.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG
YAHOO.COM.BR
YAHOO.COM

To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.

>>> Last update of whois database: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 05:09:23 EST <<<

The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
Registrars.

Connection closed by foreign host.
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