"George Kirikos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I notice a few registrants are creating hundreds, if not thousands of > vanity nameserver hosts, presumably to get traffic from folks who do a > simple WHOIS on a domain name from a command prompt. > > e.g. open a new shell if you're a Mac user and type: > > whois anything.com > > and you'll see: > > ANYTHING.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM > ANYTHING.COM > > It's exploiting the pattern matching performed by default at Internic. > It's a minor annoyance encountering these everyday, but perhaps > registrars should start enforcing some limits before it becomes an even > bigger problem? > > If not, it's the domain tasting saga all over again, and before you > know it everyone will start creating tends of thousands of these > records per domain multiplied by tens of thousands of domain names. > > Anything free tends to get abused, so perhaps it's time to start > charging for these extra vanity hosts that clog up the WHOIS database, > to have an economic solution? > > Sincerely, > > George Kirikos > http://www.kirikos.com/
A few years ago they cleaned up the database of these dead records. They may do it again. Microsoft.com is plagued by them: whois -h whois.internic.net microsoft.com ... Whois Server Version 1.3 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. MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZ.MORE.DETAILS.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZ.IS.0WNED.AND.HAX0RED.BY.SUB7.NET MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.LIVE.FOREVER.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.SLAPPED.IN.THE.FACE.BY.MY.BLUE.VEINED.SPANNER.NET MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.BEATEN.WITH.MY.SPANNER.NET MICROSOFT.COM.WAREZ.AT.TOPLIST.GULLI.COM MICROSOFT.COM.TOTALLY.SUCKS.S3U.NET MICROSOFT.COM.SMELLS.SIMPLECODES.COM MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.COM MICROSOFT.COM.RAWKZ.MUH.WERLD.MENTALFLOSS.CA MICROSOFT.COM.OHMYGODITBURNS.COM MICROSOFT.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM MICROSOFT.COM.LOVES.ME.KOSMAL.NET MICROSOFT.COM.LIVES.AT.SHAUNEWING.COM MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.YEPPA.ORG MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.AS.COOL.AS.SIMPLECODES.COM MICROSOFT.COM.IS.IN.BED.WITH.CURTYV.COM MICROSOFT.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET MICROSOFT.COM.IS.GOD.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.STEAMING.HEAP.OF.FUCKING-BULLSHIT.NET MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.MESS.TIMPORTER.CO.UK MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.ITS.OWN.CRACKLAB.COM MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.A.PRESENT.COMING.FROM.HUGHESMISSILES.COM MICROSOFT.COM.FILLS.ME.WITH.BELLIGERENCE.NET MICROSOFT.COM.DRINKS.LISTERINE.NET MICROSOFT.COM.CAN.GO.FUCK.ITSELF.AT.SECZY.COM MICROSOFT.COM.ARE.GODDAMN.PIGFUCKERS.NET.NS-NOT-IN-SERVICE.COM MICROSOFT.COM.AND.MINDSUCK.BOTH.SUCK.HUGE.ONES.AT.EXEGETE.NET MICROSOFT.COM _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
