WHOIS microsoft.com

[Brian Dessent]

Dave Korn wrote:

> > The domain info looks fine to me.  If you mean people clogging up the
> > WHOIS registry with various joke domains containing the text
> > "microsoft.com" in them then that has been going on for years
> > and years.
> >
> > Brian
> 
>   Ah, I hadn't seen it before.  And yeh, the domain info I notice does have reg
> lock on it.  There was an outage of their main website at the time I posted,
> which prompted me to look up their whois, so I put two and two together and got
> five....

Try it on aol.com and apple.com too.  Here's a nanae thread from 2000
that references it, it was the earliest I could find on usenet:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.email/browse_thread/thread/c80a91c8d2ed4a2c?tvc=2

Brian