Righthaven Gets Punked By Invalid Whois

[Newsjock]

Source: Domain Name Wire

Copyright enforcer Righthaven LLC has been punked thanks to allegedly invalid whois information.

The company’s web site Righthaven.com currently shows an invalid whois notice from Go Daddy.

Anyone can make a complaint about invalid whois information. In Go Daddy’s case, the company sends a notice to the customer and gives them time to respond (assuming the email doesn’t bounce right away). If the domain owner doesn’t respond then the domain gets suspended and the customer is charged $10.

That’s what happened in this case.

Read more: http://domainnamewire.com/2011/04/21/righthaven-gets-punked-by-invalid-whois/

[Mz Pip]

1. I had no idea what that meant

Until I read the article I had visions of some guy in a wheelchair doing some serious hacking on Righthaven. Sigh. I am so not a geek.

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[Mz Pip]

7. Learn something new every day...

Glad you are not an invalid. ;-)

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[Kolesar]

2. I read the dnw link and I am still lost in the jargon

what is "whois"?

[Taverner]

3. A UNIX command that looks up who owns a domain name (e.g. cnn.com)

[Kolesar]

4. So, its a rather dry topic, but good for chuckle

thanks

[Taverner]

5. Yep. It's also interesting to know who the Domain Name Provider is

Especially if you're shopping around for one

[Fuddnik]

9. Whois on first.

[Historic NY]

10. & whoisn't when someone claims it.....

sure could mess with campaigns.

[Zorra]

11. Yes.

[James48]

12. No. What is on second base.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml

[Ian David]

13. That kind of thing happens all the time.