What's up with the whois spam for google.com? (opens in new tab)

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13 pointszurla15y ago6 comments

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philwelch15y ago· 3 in thread

This is old news, microsoft.com had the same crap for years.

And Amazon, and Yahoo, and other popular domains. The problem is that InterNic should not sit and quietly accept this kind of abuse.

Honestly, any regulatory scheme over subdomains would be even worse than this "abuse".

Subdomains are not the problem. The issue is that these are registered namesevers, as pointed out by "there" below.

jonah15y ago· 1 in thread

Often used for phishing. "Login to your account: http://google.com.adsfjk.asdf.asdfpuiasdf/soasdf.html blah blah."

there15y ago

hardly. these are registered nameservers showing in whois and have nothing to do with random subdomains.

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