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Dev tools · August 8, 2012

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Strange Whois Records for Major Sites

Open your Terminal / Console / sh prompt and type the following: whois aol.com whois google.com whois microsoft.com ... etc. Can anyone explain why WHOIS/Verisign can't prevent this? I found some explanations but none of them made much sense.

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