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kick52 · Dec 31, 2006, 10:09 PM

Strange..

Blasphemy · Dec 31, 2006, 10:18 PM

I don't get it

Explain to the layman

kick52 · Dec 31, 2006, 10:38 PM

you didnt get the

"GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.SwingingCommunity.Com - Swinging Community And Adult Personals
GOOGLE.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WEB-HACK.COM
GOOGLE.COM.WORDT.DOOR.VEEL.WHTERS.GEBRUIKT.SERVERT JE.NET
GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SPROSIUYANDEKSA.RU
GOOGLE.COM.PLZ.GIVE.A.PR8.TO.AUDIOTRACKER.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.APPROVED.BY.NUMEA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE .THAN.SECZY.COM"

DNS records?

turtle777 · Dec 31, 2006, 10:42 PM

whois www. google.com gets it right.

I dunno why

-t

Chuckit · Jan 1, 2007, 03:02 AM

Originally Posted by Blasphemy

I don't get it

Explain to the layman

Whois is a command that looks up information on a domain name. In this case, it looks like there are lots of different domain names that all contain "google.com" (most of them are totally unrelated sites that just want to come up for the search "google.com"), so it's listing them and asking which one you mean to look up.

hadocon · Jan 1, 2007, 06:23 AM

This is really cool. Can we find any other exampes?

hadocon · Jan 1, 2007, 06:26 AM

Ha Ha!

Try doing a whois on amazon.com. You will get this:

Awesome! Any more to find?

kick52 · Jan 1, 2007, 08:20 AM

you get nearly the same with ebay.com

Peter · Jan 1, 2007, 09:44 AM

Eriamjh · Jan 1, 2007, 10:57 AM

Do apple.

turtle777 · Jan 1, 2007, 12:07 PM

So, obviously, leaving out the "WWW." in front of the domain does that kind of stuff.

Does anyone know why ?

If you leave out the www. in your web browser address bar, you'll still get to the right place.

I'm sure there is an easy explanation.

-t

Chuckit · Jan 1, 2007, 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by turtle777

So, obviously, leaving out the "WWW." in front of the domain does that kind of stuff.

Does anyone know why ?

If you leave out the www. in your web browser address bar, you'll still get to the right place.

I'm sure there is an easy explanation

Like I said, it's supposed to perform a lookup of the DNS record. In this case, when you search for "amazon.com", it sees there are many records (most of them pranks) that begin with "amazon.com" and it lists them all followed by a message saying, basically, "Please choose one of these."

Chips G · Jan 1, 2007, 02:27 PM

Apple:

DeathMan · Jan 1, 2007, 03:11 PM

The whois lookup is being ungreedy on the front of its search. it finds apple.com.irule.com just as it finds apple.com, or apple.com.joe.net, and returns the list so you can specify which you want.