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Re: OT: www.Amazon.com down?

  • From: Jay Hennigan
  • Date: Fri Jun 06 15:32:45 2008
Adam Fields wrote:

This is rather suspicious (and confirmed by three other people):

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$ whois amazon.com

AMAZON.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
AMAZON.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
AMAZON.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.WWW.GULLI.COM
AMAZON.COM
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whois for yahoo.com and google.com yield similar results.

I expect this means that DNS has been compromised somewhere.

No compromise, just people getting cute by registering host records. Microsoft.com is a mild example...

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