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I believe that whois does a wildcard search for all domains known to start with microsoft.com, and some funny people registered subdomains under their own domai
by janjongboom 13y ago
I believe that whois does a wildcard search for all domains known to start with microsoft.com, and some funny people registered subdomains under their own domains that start with microsoft.com. But maybe I'm wrong :-)
- jalada 13y agoAh yes, same applies to facebook.com and many others.
- mappu 13y agoOK. Next question - why does the verisign whois server know about arbitarily nested subdomains, instead of only top-level registrations?
- mattzito 13y agoTake a look at my response upthread - basically, they're not sub domains, they're arbitrarily registered name server entries to provide glue to other lookups. The Whois record is just the side effect
- AdamGibbins 13y agoCorrect, you can do an exact match using whois 'domain microsoft.com'