[CLUE-Talk] Yahoo?

[Chris K. Chew]

Can anybody else dig or nslookup on www.yahoo.com?  I can't, and all the
name servers I know of can't.  I was worried for a moment because I figured
that my company's name servers would go down before yahoo's would.

I did a whois on yahoo.com and got:

>Whois Server Version 1.3
>
>Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
>with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
>for detailed information.
>
>YAHOO.COM.REALLY.NEEDS.TO.GET.A.CLUE.AT.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG
>YAHOO.COM.IS.TRYING.TO.STEAL.YAHOO.VU.HOW.ACIDULOUS.COM
>YAHOO.COM.IS.NOT.CANADIAN.ORG
>YAHOO.COM.BR
>YAHOO.COM.AND.SAFESEARCH.COM.AINT.NOTHING.COMPARED.TO.SHEEPSTER.COM
>YAHOO.COM.AINT.NOTHIN.COMPARED.TO.SAFESEARCH.COM
>YAHOO.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: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:10:53 EST <<<
>
>The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
>Registrars.

It kind of looks like NSI (now verisign, I guess) has been hacked.  If I
were yahoo, I would go ballistic on the crappy company called Network
Solutions/Verisign.

Chris