[General] What's the Heck?!!!

[Majed B.]

I didn't expect internic to be doing domain squatting :/  but I guess
it's possible...
A lot of registrar have been accused of doing that for a while.

On 2/29/08, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar at kuwaitnet.net> wrote:
> what you are getting are nameservers registered at the rootservers thats
> why you get those results
>
>
> internic replies these results because of the nameservers registered at
> each respective registry.
>
>
> check http://awhois.com/google.com
>
>
> btw never use who.is or whois.ws  they catch whois search and register
> the available domains for parking (domain tasting) google for more info
>
>
> on newer versions of jwhois they should forward to the registrar whois
> server and reply with results such as:
>
> [bashar at orbit ~]$ whois google.com
> [Querying whois.internic.net]
> [Redirected to whois.markmonitor.com]
> [Querying whois.markmonitor.com]
> [whois.markmonitor.com]
>
> then the results shows here
>
>
>
> try whoising aa.net you will get the same because there is a nameserver
> called aa.net.au registered:
>
> (~)whois aa.net
>
> 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.
>
> AA.NET.AU
> AA.NET
>
>
>
> and the list goes on :)
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>


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       Majed B.