Weird whois information for google.com

eh?

[pixel_juice]

I just ran a whois query on Google.com using the excellent samspade tool, and rather than the info I expected, I got the following bizarre result:

GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.<snip>.COM.<more gibberish>

How did that happen? The software queries whois.crsnic.net for the result, although going to crsnic.net just returns alldomains.com as the registrant. Is this a samspade hack or something? I get the same result from their site ( www.samspade.org/t/lookat?a=google.com ) too.

[JonB]

that first long domain exists.

[bird]

You can register individual hosts with whois, which is normally done for name servers or similar infrastructure items. Some people consider it 1337 to register long subdomains based on one of their own domains:

[blue][3]stupid.statement[/3][/blue][3].prepended.as.subdomains.to.[/3][red][3]your-own-domain.com[/3][/red]

The stupid statement usually says something about another popular domain name. If your whois tool does wild card searches, then you'll find pointless entries like this en masse.

[pixel_juice]

>>that first long domain exists.

Yeah, I tried them too ;)

>>wild card searches

Ah, I get it - three results match google.com and the other 2 from the 1337.I.will.owns.joo crew appear higher in the list. Hence the "To single out one record..." message after the result which I didn't understand. Thanks guys :)