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Re: Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Wed Jan 24 20:32:44 2001

Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:25:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
Cc: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>,
	Dave McKay <dave@sneakerz.org>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

> 
> Out of interest.. does anyone happen to know why rs.internic.net reports
> the following of microsoft.com?

When you do a search on microsoft.com, it turns up hostnames that include
'microsoft.com' - those are the domain names of hosts registered with
Internic. That's all these are.

> MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.LIVE.FOREVER.BUT.LUNIX.SUCKS-BYBIRTH.ARTISTICCHEESE.COM
> MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.COM

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