[Mimedefang] Whois for Microsoft?

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Mon Dec 8 16:10:23 EST 2008


WBrown at e1b.org wrote:
> Has anyone looked at the whois data on microsoft lately?

> MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZ.MORE.DETAILS.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM

> and a bunch more!

> Any idea who/how this got hacked?

I don't think it was hacked.  I think if you own a domain "example.com",
you can publish WHOIS entries for "anything.you.like.example.com" and
whois (at least, the UNIX version) seems to match any subdomain.

Regards,

David.



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