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Network Solutions Overhauls Whois Results

Posted by timothy on from the now-it-needs-orkut-style-linking dept.

Robert Accettura writes "Network Solutions has updated its whois interface, giving it an interesting new twist. On top of regular info provided, it shows data that appears to be from Alexa, including a screenshot of the homepage (though not terribly recent), as well as looks up your IP, and displays lots of information on it. It even shows the server type, if it supports SSL, DMOZ, Yahoo listing, traffic ranking, and lock status. This comes right after they announced rapid DNS updates. Perhaps they are trying to win over the geeks before they turn on sitefinder?"

10 of 243 comments (clear)

  1. buttsex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    anus lillies

    1. Re:buttsex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Right on. You really nailed "sitefinder". Great description!

  2. Re:Or maybe... by LXAC08 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought virtual boy was a Nintendo marked disaster.

  3. FSCK NSOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Domain mongering bastards

  4. Re:No .us whois lookup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's also showing us as an e-commerce site, for some reason :(

  5. geek related by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    off topic but still geek related..

    A flood of sex how-to's was recently posted on alt.binaries.e-book

  6. /me can't hold back the... grammar... nazi... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    By *whom*.

  7. Re:Alexa Violating Copyrights by GuyFawkes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    blocking with robots.txt doesn't work with the new and improved msn search, which simply ignores it and indexes EVERYTHING....

    as a result I have edited my robots.txt on my genealogy site to the following.

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

    eg, fuck you msn search

    there's quite a fuss going on about this quietly, msn tech's are claiming that they aren't doing anything wrong since robots.txt isn't an accepted standard anyway... hopefully if everyone bans msn search totally as I have done they will get the fucking message.

    check out the replies from "msndude" the msn tech in the following forum.
    http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum97/73.h tm

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    http://slashdot.org/~GuyFawkes/journal
  8. This is your warning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you spam your shitty website here again, I have well over 200 megabits of distributed hosts around the internet ready to flood your IRC network and/or website at my command. If it happens, then don't be surprised.

    I am sending a warning to your IRC host to let them know of your spamming activities and that if they can't get a lid on you guys, I will take this matter into my own hands. Thanks.sad

  9. This is your warning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you spam your shitty website here again, I have well over 200 megabits of distributed hosts around the internet ready to flood your IRC network and/or website at my command. If it happens, then don't be surprised.

    I am sending a warning to your IRC host to let them know of your spamming activities and that if they can't get a lid on you guys, I will take this matter into my own hands. Thanks.&&^hjd