Re: [ga] Re: Advertises on whois queries

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hugo and all,

  Yeah, live an learn is right!  Seems we have now learned that
playing childrens games with Whois is more important than
doing the proper thing.  Very bad and very sad.

Hugo Monteiro wrote:

> 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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