On 2013-10-21, at 10:31, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
feeling a little st00pid here.
The crsnic servers return hostname matches as well as domain matches, an enduring source of confusion for many years. You can make the server show all records that match using "=". There's other stuff, whois -h whois.crsnic.net help for more. By default, the server your whois client is using depends on the client. Some of the code I once wrote for OpenBSD's /usr/bin/whois has survived there and has insinuated itself into other platforms; if your whois is similar then it's using Ultra's whois-servers.net collection (so it's looking up com.whois-servers.net and finding whois.verisign-grs.com. That's a different server from whois.crsnic.net (at least, it has a different address). It's all a bit of a mess. Joe [krill:~]% whois -h whois.crsnic.net '=facebook.com' 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. Server Name: FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM IP Address: 69.41.185.229 Registrar: TUCOWS DOMAINS INC. Whois Server: whois.tucows.com Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net Server Name: FACEBOOK.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM IP Address: 203.36.226.2 Registrar: INSTRA CORPORATION PTY, LTD. Whois Server: whois.instra.net Referral URL: http://www.instra.com Server Name: FACEBOOK.COM.LOVED.BY.WWW.SHQIPHOST.COM IP Address: 46.4.210.254 Registrar: ONLINENIC, INC. Whois Server: whois.onlinenic.com Referral URL: http://www.OnlineNIC.com Server Name: FACEBOOK.COM.KNOWS.THAT.THE.BEST.WEB.HOSTING.IS.NASHHOST.NET IP Address: 78.47.16.44 Registrar: CENTER OF UKRAINIAN INTERNET NAMES Whois Server: whois.ukrnames.com Referral URL: http://www.ukrnames.com Server Name: FACEBOOK.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM IP Address: 209.126.190.70 Registrar: PDR LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com Referral URL: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com Server Name: FACEBOOK.COM.DISABLE.YOUR.TIMELINE.NOW.WITH.THE.ORIGINAL.TIMELINE-REMOVE.NET IP Address: 8.8.8.8 Registrar: ENOM, INC. Whois Server: whois.enom.com Referral URL: http://www.enom.com Domain Name: FACEBOOK.COM Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC. Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com Name Server: A.NS.FACEBOOK.COM Name Server: B.NS.FACEBOOK.COM Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Status: serverDeleteProhibited Status: serverTransferProhibited Status: serverUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 28-sep-2012 Creation Date: 29-mar-1997 Expiration Date: 30-mar-2020
Last update of whois database: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:37:21 UTC <<<
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