This is hilarious.....reminds me of a similar prob they had at FCC. At 18:26 8/12/02 -0400, you wrote:

I guess the FBI/NIPC can't put out an alert about this one.

Notice the absence of any domain servers

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whois -h whois.nic.gov fbi.gov % DOTGOV WHOIS Server ready Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI-DOM) Information Resources Division Washington, DC 20535 Domain Name: FBI.GOV Status: Active Domain servers in listed order: Technical POC, Administrative POC: Sanders, Shereada L. (SLS1) (202) 324-9430 (FAX)(202) 324-6720 SSANDERS.ICSU@FBI.GOV

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dig @a.root-servers.net fbi.gov any

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @a.root-servers.net fbi.gov any ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; fbi.gov, type = ANY, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION: gov. 1D IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. REGISTRAR.NIC.gov. ( 2002081201 ; serial 1H ; refresh 15M ; retry 1W ; expiry 1D ) ; minimum

;; Total query time: 15 msec ;; FROM: clifden to SERVER: a.root-servers.net 198.41.0.4 ;; WHEN: Mon Aug 12 18:24:40 2002 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 25 rcvd: 93