Re: Whois acting funny in FreeBSD

[merlyn () stonehenge com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

> > > > > "Bassett," == Bassett, Mark <mbassett () omaha com> writes:

Bassett,> One more update ( sorry for the multiple postings..
Bassett,> So looks like whois.godaddy.com   whois.gandi.net and
Bassett,> whois.itsyourdomain.com are the offenders.

No, you can register such names with *any* registrar, even
Internic^Wnetsol^Wverisign.  The point is that the whois lookup finds
substrings, not anchored strings.

And you can't remove the ability to register such names, because who
are you to say that I don't have a machine named
"microsoft.com.stonehenge.com", anyway?

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