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by ktosiek 5154 days ago
Slightly off-topic, but this led me to discover whois spam:

(please don't go there and feed the spammers, thank you :-))

  $ whois facebook.com
  FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM from whois Server: whois.tucows.com
  FACEBOOK.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM from whois Server: whois.instra.net
  FACEBOOK.COM.LOVED.BY.WWW.SHQIPHOST.COM from Whois Server: whois.onlinenic.com
  FACEBOOK.COM.KNOWS.THAT.THE.BEST.WEB.HOSTING.IS.NASHHOST.NET from Whois Server: whois.your-server.de
  FACEBOOK.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM from Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
2 comments
Monotoko 5154 days ago
... how the hell do you do that? Not that I want to, just interested how those domains show up when you do a whois search.
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getsat 5154 days ago
Microsoft.com has better results IMO.
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anonymous 5154 days ago
Hah, yeah

  MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.BEATEN.WITH.MY.SPANNER.NET
  MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.COM
  MICROSOFT.COM.OHMYGODITBURNS.COM
  MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.STEAMING.HEAP.OF.FUCKING-BULLSHIT.NET
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X4 5154 days ago
http://slacksite.com/humour/whois.html

That's been around for more than 10 years, the reason is that whois is doing subtring matches.

Blackhat SEO stuff. Easy to fool google suggest also.

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