Has any one tried a whois of microsoft.com lately?

[funkychunkz]

Go on and try it. I swear I didn't do this, nor have intension to do something like this.

It's pretty funny, you'd think that SOMEONE at MS would notice.

 

[liketom]

you mean this ?


whois microsoft.com


This is not a hoax--this is the actual result from the command whois microsoft.com. For those not familiar, the whois tool looks up domain names in the central InterNIC registry database and prints the results. How was this done? Its rather simple--whois doesn't only list domain names, it also lists name server records. Various people created name server records for their domains with a funny message about Microsoft in the host name of their name servers. These are probably not real hosts, but they do appear in these database queries. These lists change all the time, so here is a snapshot of how things looked in the summer of 2001.


bender: {/export/home/slacker} % whois microsoft.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.

MICROSOFT.COM.Z---HELLO-FROM-SIBERIA---I.Z3S.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.WONT.ADMIT.THAT.THEIR.SOFTWARE.BELONGS.IN.SEWAGEPIPES.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.NEVER.SATISFY.A.TRUE.TELNETJUNKIE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.NEVER.RUN.PUREDATA.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.LIVE.FOREVER.BUT.LUNIX.SUCKS-

and so on and on

 

[edesignuk]

It's pretty funny, you'd think that SOMEONE at MS would notice.

And what do you think they'd do about it? All of the results (bar microsoft.com itself) are nothing more than subdomains off of other domains that have nothing to do with MS.

 

[funkychunkz]

And what do you think they'd do about it? All of the results (bar microsoft.com itself) are nothing more than subdomains off of other domains that have nothing to do with MS.

Although they have nothing to do with microsoft, this is similar to being openly mocked. One would expect to whois microsoft.com and find some relevant information about them, perhaps some contact info.

You'd think that they could do something to avoid the public display of this image. It's like phishing. Say I was trying to mislead people to pay funds for ebay transactions to me. I would mirror information, and register a similar domain name that people would misread a ebay.com. I would spam people asking them to try "shopping" at my site, and put in a link to http://www.ebay.com (My would-be domain). They would pay money for pretend items, but this is ok because I put down in the legal or terms of service section that I held no promise that they would actually receive product for their money.

Should this be legal because they should have known? Does any normal person actually read every detail? All 120 pages?

 

[Dr. Dastardly]

Oh Alla's just pissed becuase she messed up so bad on that last Microsoft task on the Apprentice.

Which made me lugh that they were editing a video for Microsoft on a Mac.

 

[belvdr]

Although they have nothing to do with microsoft, this is similar to being openly mocked. One would expect to whois microsoft.com and find some relevant information about them, perhaps some contact info.

You mean like this? Just use a whois client that queries a direct domain, not one who searches for anything like it.

Registrant:
 Microsoft Corporation
 One Microsoft Way
 Redmond, WA 98052
 US

 Domain name: MICROSOFT.COM

 Administrative Contact:
    Administrator, Domain  domains@microsoft.com
    One Microsoft Way
    Redmond, WA 98052
    US
    +1.4258828080
 Technical Contact:
    Hostmaster, MSN  msnhst@microsoft.com
    One Microsoft Way
    Redmond, WA 98052
    US
    +1.4258828080


 Registration Service Provider:
    DBMS VeriSign, dbms-support@verisign.com
    800-579-2848 x4
    Please contact DBMS VeriSign for domain updates, DNS/Nameserver
    changes, and general domain support questions.


 Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
 Record last updated on 27-Jan-2005.
 Record expires on 03-May-2014.
 Record created on 02-May-1991.

 Domain servers in listed order:
    NS5.MSFT.NET   207.46.138.20
    NS3.MSFT.NET   213.199.144.151
    NS2.MSFT.NET   64.4.25.30
    NS4.MSFT.NET   207.46.66.75
    NS1.MSFT.NET   207.46.245.230

 

[aquajet]

Here's my favorite

MICROSOFT.COM.CAN.GO.****.ITSELF.AT.SECZY.COM

 

[maestro55]

Too bad I ger the real information when I do a whois on linux.. I didn't get the see the nify list.

..and 1 infinite loop is a much better address than one microsoft way.