[overworkedasian]

This doesnt look right:

whois facebook.com @8.8.8.8

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.DISABLE.YOUR.TIMELINE.NOW.WITH.THE.ORIGINAL.TIMELINE-REMOVE.NET FACEBOOK.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM FACEBOOK.COM.LOVED.BY.WWW.SHQIPHOST.COM FACEBOOK.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM FACEBOOK.COM

To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.

>>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 06:56:04 GMT <<<

[axaxs]

Appears to return hosts with name starting with search term, which doesn't make a lot of sense but has likely always been the case. Also @ flag is a dig thing, not whois.

[anthony_franco]

It's just the way whois lookups work. Do a whois lookup of any big site (google.com, microsoft.com, etc) and you'll get a similar response.

[adhipg]

You get the info that you're looking for if you do

whois =facebook.com

[markthethomas]

I've run WHOIS queries on FB before and gotten the same(ish) thing more than a few times -- assumed it was temporary tampering before

[jeffreyrogers]

It's been that way for a while now and happens with any large site. Try google.com for example and you'll see the same thing.

[chris_wot]

(Nobody tell him to lookup Microsoft.com)

[zaporozhets]

"Facebook finally figures out that sex /still/ sells better than advertising"