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Ask HN: What's going on with Google's WHOIS record?
I just entered `whois google.com` into Terminal, and it produced this:
GOOGLE.COM.AFRICANBATS.ORG
GOOGLE.COM.AR
GOOGLE.COM.ARTVISUALRIO.COM
GOOGLE.COM.AU
GOOGLE.COM.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
GOOGLE.COM.BR
GOOGLE.COM.CN
GOOGLE.COM.CO
GOOGLE.COM.DO
GOOGLE.COM.HACKED.BY.JAPTRON.ES
GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.HK
GOOGLE.COM.IS.APPROVED.BY.NUMEA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
GOOGLE.COM.LASERPIPE.COM
GOOGLE.COM.LOLOLOLOLOL.SHTHEAD.COM
GOOGLE.COM.MX
GOOGLE.COM.MY
GOOGLE.COM.NS1.CHALESHGAR.COM
GOOGLE.COM.NS2.CHALESHGAR.COM
GOOGLE.COM.PE
GOOGLE.COM.PK
GOOGLE.COM.SA
GOOGLE.COM.SHQIPERIA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SOUTHBEACHNEEDLEARTISTRY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SPAMMING.IS.UNETHICAL.PLEASE.STOP.THEM.HUAXUEERBAN.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SPROSIUYANDEKSA.RU
GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.TR
GOOGLE.COM.TW
GOOGLE.COM.UA
GOOGLE.COM.UY
GOOGLE.COM.VABDAYOFF.COM
GOOGLE.COM.VN
GOOGLE.COM.WORDT.DOOR.VEEL.WHTERS.GEBRUIKT.SERVERTJE.NET
GOOGLE.COM.YUCEHOCA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.YUCEKIRBAC.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZNAET.PRODOMEN.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.HAVENDATA.COM
GOOGLE.COMMAS2CHAPTERS.COM
GOOGLE.COM
Anyone have an explanation?
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- samgb 12y agoThose are subdomains. So for example if I owned the domain somedomain.com - I could create a subdomain called google.somedomain.com which is what you are seeing.
- PythonDeveloper 12y agoIt's using a substring search and returning all the registered subdomain matches, with the literal match as the last item. try "whois =google.com" and read the last entry.
- dekhn 12y agoMany of those look like prefixes, so I think you version of whois is looking up any name record that contains google.com, across all domain registries. Certainly, many of those don't seem to be google.com-owned entries, but rather misleading addresses designed to capture people who enter google.com but resolve to a non-google.com server.
- dragonwriter 12y agoMost of that has nothing to do with Google's WHOIS record, it has to do with other people who have created domain names with "GOOGLE.COM" as a substring, specifically so that their own stuff will show up when you do "WHOIS GOOGLE.COM".