What's with all the spam on whois?
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There was similar thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6204867
>This is because under the Verisign GRS, name servers for second level domains also get entries created. So, you can create a Whois entry for an arbitrarily named server, like ycombinator.com.paulgraham.have.mychildren.com, and it will show up. I haven't been involved in Whois and tld stuff in a while, but back in the day, these host Whois records were allowed because the gtld servers needed glue for domain names - after all, if your domain name is ycombinator.com and your name server is ns1.ycombinator.com, how can a resolver recurse to find that, unless te gtld servers also have an A record for that label/object? So, you could just go create arbitrary A records at the gtld level, which would cause a corresponding Whois entry to be created. Hilarity for all involved.
>This is because under the Verisign GRS, name servers for second level domains also get entries created. So, you can create a Whois entry for an arbitrarily named server, like ycombinator.com.paulgraham.have.mychildren.com, and it will show up. I haven't been involved in Whois and tld stuff in a while, but back in the day, these host Whois records were allowed because the gtld servers needed glue for domain names - after all, if your domain name is ycombinator.com and your name server is ns1.ycombinator.com, how can a resolver recurse to find that, unless te gtld servers also have an A record for that label/object? So, you could just go create arbitrary A records at the gtld level, which would cause a corresponding Whois entry to be created. Hilarity for all involved.
Thanks for the detailed response. Good stuff.
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# whois microsoft.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.