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What's up with the whois spam for google.com? | Better HN
What's up with the whois spam for google.com?
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zurla
15y ago
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philwelch
15y ago
This is old news, microsoft.com had the same crap for years.
acangiano
15y ago
And Amazon, and Yahoo, and other popular domains. The problem is that InterNic should not sit and quietly accept this kind of abuse.
philwelch
15y ago
Honestly, any regulatory scheme over subdomains would be even worse than this "abuse".
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jonah
15y ago
Often used for phishing. "Login to your account:
http://google.com.adsfjk.asdf.asdfpuiasdf/soasdf.html
blah blah."
there
15y ago
hardly. these are registered nameservers showing in whois and have nothing to do with random subdomains.
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