Re: [ga] Re: Advertises on whois queries

[Hugo Monteiro <hugo.monteiro@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> 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...
>
>   
My bad...

Live and learn heh? =)

Regards,

Hugo Monteiro.

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