Show HN: Strange Whois Records for Major Sites
Open your Terminal / Console / sh prompt and type the following:
whois aol.com
whois google.com
whois microsoft.com
... etc.
Can anyone explain why WHOIS/Verisign can't prevent this? I found some explanations but none of them made much sense.
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[ 1727 ms ] story [ 2179 ms ] threadGo there and pick "nameserver" and then plug in one of these silly names. The whois request you're running is ambiguous at that level, so you get back both those nameserver substring matches and the domain itself.
This is old news, unfortunately.