$ whois facebook.com

Posted by relation on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:17PM
from the self-post dept.

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Re:$ whois facebook.com by 7beersonthewall on Monday December 10, 2012 @07:57PM (#4902534)

This is old. You can see this on most big company whois lookups. It is just subdomains that show up since whois just pulls everything with the domain name in it.

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Re:$ whois facebook.com by codewright on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:49PM (#4902321)

Could someone share what we're supposed to be seeing? I find it really irritating when people post potentially time-sensitive stuff that can disappear without caching/inlining the expected result.

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Re:$ whois facebook.com by sheraz on Monday December 10, 2012 @07:31PM (#4902439)

ok, I'll bite. This is the output from my MacBook pro on the command line:

  $ whois facebook.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.

  FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
  FACEBOOK.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
  FACEBOOK.COM.LOVED.BY.WWW.SHQIPHOST.COM
  FACEBOOK.COM.KNOWS.THAT.THE.BEST.WEB.HOSTING.IS.NASHHOST.NET
  FACEBOOK.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM
  FACEBOOK.COM

  ...generic legal mumbo-jumbo....

looks like someone is having fun with whois entry hacking/cracking

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Re:$ whois facebook.com by codewright on Monday December 10, 2012 @07:34PM (#4902450)

Something is proxying my whois queries, I don't see any of this and instead get Facebook's Markmonitor result.

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Re:$ whois facebook.com by lomendil on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:35PM (#4902270)

If this is about weird/vulgar statements with FACEBOOK.COM in the name, they exist for just about every big domain. Whois queries return results for subdomain matches.

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Re:$ whois facebook.com by AdamGibbins on Monday December 10, 2012 @09:08PM (#4902721)

This is normal. whois does partial searches by default, run whois 'domain facebook.com' for an exact match.

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Re:$ whois facebook.com by doki_pen on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:21PM (#4902185)

how was it done?

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Re:$ whois facebook.com by doki_pen on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:26PM (#4902221)

$whois google.com shows similar results, I think this has nothing to do with the downtime, or I'm missing something.

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