Whois Amazon, Yahoo (Don't Panic: not a cracked name server)

[Scott Bertilson]

> When I do a "whois amazon.com" I get;
> AMAZON.COM.SHOULD.SELL.SEXTOYSONLINE.COM

> And "whois yahoo.com" I get;
> YAHOO.COM.IS.TRYING.TO.STEAL.YAHOO.VU.HOW.ACIDULOUS.COM

  Actually, you get:
	AMAZON.COM.SHOULD.SELL.SEXTOYSONLINE.COM
	AMAZON.COM
and:
	YAHOO.COM.IS.TRYING.TO.STEAL.YAHOO.VU.HOW.ACIDULOUS.COM
	YAHOO.COM
Someone is taking advantage of the way "whois" works
(and "whois" is _not_ the DNS) to take a poke at
Amazon and Yahoo.  They did this by registering
	ACIDULOUS.COM
and
	SEXTOYSONLINE.COM
and then registering the address of a name server with
the long name that included the poke.  You could have
figured this out by doing:
	whois YAHOO.COM.IS.TRYING.TO.STEAL.YAHOO.VU.HOW.ACIDULOUS.COM
					Scott