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Hotmail Is Not As 1337 As It Used To Be

Posted in Programming by gary.haran on the April 26th, 2007

I used to really like hotmail. I remember back in the day when it was the only online email solution and everyone who was somebody would get hotmail. Things really started to suck when Microsoft decided to purchase it. At first they tried to move away from BSD machines and host it all on Windows but they failed miserably and had to go back to using the more reliable OS.

After a few trial and errors (and a bunch of redirects) they were able to “fix” it and have it hosted on Windows servers.

I would have forgotten about Hotmail altoghter if it wasn’t for my brother point something out to me which made me laugh.

$ whois hotmail.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.


HOTMAIL.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
HOTMAIL.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.GULLI.COM
HOTMAIL.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
HOTMAIL.COM.BR
HOTMAIL.COM.AU
HOTMAIL.COM

To single out one record, look it up with “xxx”, where xxx is one of the of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up with “=xxx” to receive a full display for each record.

>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:29:21 UTC < <<

I’ve been using Gmail for years now and their whois information is more than reasonable.

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  1. Daniel Haran said,

    on April 26th, 2007 at 1:54 pm

    Hey bro,

    register.com has the normal dns server; seems the Mac CLI gets it from whois.org ?

    Odd…

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