[Mimedefang] Whois for Microsoft?

[WBrown at e1b.org]

Jan Pieter Cornet wrote on 12/09/2008 03:14:12 AM:

> Exactly. If anything is hacked, it's your interpretation of the WHOIS
> output.
>
> For more examples of this juvenile behaviour of registrars, look at
> "whois beyondwhois.com". Or take the next domain on the "hacked
> microsoft whois" list... it's just digital graffiti on the ivory tower
> of the domain registrars. You'd think with all that money coming in they
> can afford to keep their neighbourhood clean, but apparently not...

Thanks for the explanation.  I stumbled across this when demonstrating
CanIt to a user and showed them the whois look up tool.

Is the fault in the *nix whois tool, or the data returned by the server
queried?