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Re: Yahoo Hacked?

  • From: Brandon Handeland
  • Date: Wed Mar 20 14:31:09 2002


The whois server has a really loose pattern matching engine. This is actually a host record for:

JIMPHILLIPS.ORG
ACIDULOUS.COM
CANADIAN.ORG
COM.BR
SHEEPSTER.COM
SAFESEARCH.COM

The last one is what you are looking for - yahoo.com

This is becoming more and more common. Look at microsoft.com, apple.com, etc.

At 06:17 PM 3/19/02, David McGaugh wrote:
whois -h whois.internic.net yahoo.com

Whois Server Version 1.3

Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

YAHOO.COM.REALLY.NEEDS.TO.GET.A.CLUE.AT.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG
YAHOO.COM.IS.TRYING.TO.STEAL.YAHOO.VU.HOW.ACIDULOUS.COM
YAHOO.COM.IS.NOT.CANADIAN.ORG
YAHOO.COM.BR
YAHOO.COM.AND.SAFESEARCH.COM.AINT.NOTHING.COMPARED.TO.SHEEPSTER.COM
YAHOO.COM.AINT.NOTHIN.COMPARED.TO.SAFESEARCH.COM
YAHOO.COM

To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
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, 19 Mar 2002 17:10:53 EST <<<

The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
Registrars.
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Brandon Handeland             Brandon@wyoming.com
Senior Network Engineer
wyoming.com NOC       (307) 857-1092
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