[ga] Re: Advertises on whois queries

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:22:31AM +0100,
 Hugo Monteiro <hugo.monteiro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
 a message of 204 lines which said:

> Is a Registrar supposed to add advertisements/garbage in the whois
> database?

It was not added by the registrar. It is an old joke which still works
with recent whois servers. Many students enjoyed it :-)

> I was truely surprised when i preformed a whois query on live.com
> (owned by Microsoft) and the reply was the following:

The registrar whois server sends you back everything which *starts*
with live.com, including the host records...