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Re: [LUG] whois microsoft.com

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Subject: Re: [LUG] whois microsoft.com
From: Daniel Case <danielcase10@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:11:05 +0100
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>Try it on the command line.

It's been done to a lot of different big companies, whois 'foo' will return any domains who have foo as the leftmost part. It isn't anything new, try it with amazon.com as well, if I was to go and put the following in my domain name it would appear: ubuntu.com.monotoko.co.uk

Dan

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