Re: weird whois entries for yahoo.com

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam () noc everquick net>]

> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 18:17:04 +0100
> From: Peter van Dijk <peter () dataloss nl>

> On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:06:15AM -0600, David Ulevitch wrote:
> [snip]
> > > YAHOO.COM.IS.TRYING.TO.STEAL.YAHOO.VU.HOW.ACIDULOUS.COM
> > > YAHOO.COM.AINT.NOTHIN.COMPARED.TO.SAFESEARCH.COM
> > > YAHOO.COM
> [snip]
> > Is this just someone at yahoo having fun with whois, or a more serious problem?
>
> Those are people at safesearch.com and acidulous.com having fun with
> whois. Nothing serious.

Note that you'll see the same behavior with microsoft.com and
other domains where people want to have a little fun.  It's just
a difference in the regex matching -- does it match "^string$"
only (what you expected), or does it match "string" (when you see
creative NS entries).


Eddy

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