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WhoIs Shenanigans

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I am sure that everyone has used a WhoIs utility (such as https://www.internic.org/whois.html) for querying the owner of a domain name such as microsoft.com. There is however an alternative to these Web forms which provides more information allowing you to search not just for strings matching a domain name, but also for strings matching registered hostnames of domain names. This provides hysterical insight into the minds of some Webmasters. For a laugh take a look at some of these hostnames registered with microsoft.com or google.com in them.

MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.LIVE.FOREVER.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.BEATEN.WITH.MY.SPANNER.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.SOFTWARE.IS.NOT.USED.AT.REG.RU
MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.GOD.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.ITS.OWN.CRACKLAB.COM
MICROSOFT.COM

GOOGLE.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
GOOGLE.COM.YAHOO.COM.MYSPACE.COM.YOUTUBE.COM.FACEBOOK.COM.THEYSUCK.DNSABOUT.COM
GOOGLE.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
GOOGLE.COM.ACQUIRED.BY.CALITEC.NET
GOOGLE.COM

To see the complete list (r rated) try running the code yourself. Post a response with your funniest hostname or domain names other than these two that are particularly funny.

using

System;

using

System.Collections.Generic;

using

System.Linq;

using

System.Text;

using

System.Net.Sockets;

using

System.IO;

namespace

WhoIsQuery

{

   class Program

{

      static void Main(string[] args)

{

         // A query that results in more than one result lists all possible results

         // so that a more precise query can be entered.

         // A query with only one result returns just that result.

        // Send request to WhoIs Server

        Console.WriteLine("Contacting Internic");

        TcpClient client = new TcpClient("whois.internic.net", 43);

        StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(client.GetStream());

writer.WriteLine(

"microsoft.com");

writer.Flush();

        // Retrieve response

        StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder();

        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(client.GetStream());

        do

{

output.Append(reader.ReadLine() +

Environment.NewLine);

}

        while (!reader.EndOfStream);

        Console.WriteLine(output);

        Console.ReadLine();

}

}

}

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 02, 2008
    PingBack from http://domaining.2go5.net/2008/03/31/whois-shenanigans/

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2008
    THANK YOU!  I have been trying all day to find whois code in .Net that actually worked.  This is the first out of probably 40 bad examples. I think they are all missing the Flush call.