Woah... Google got hit

>whois google.com

Whois Server Version 1.3

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM
GOOGLE.COM

To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.

>>> Last update of whois database: Sat, 7 May 2005 08:52:39 EDT <<<

5 responses to 'Woah... Google got hit'

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1. For all you google addicts: http://216.239.57.99/ still works ;-)

   Sun May 08 00:58:23 +0200 2005 - Dominik Wagner, 6 minutes later

2. The whois output is unrelated to the perceived outage. Basically this is a (quite old) way to spam whois by registering nameservers that begin with a commonly used domain name. (Try whois microsoft.com for more funny stuff.) No hacking there.

   To get accurate whois information type: whois “dom google.com”

   Sun May 08 11:00:39 +0200 2005 - map, about 10 hours later

3. Ah.. I see. This is a disambiguation page. Silly me. More about this kind of thing in the comments of: hbarbobot

   Nevertheless, google outage isn’t nice, even if it was just an DNS problem.

   Sun May 08 11:31:14 +0200 2005 - Dominik Wagner, about 11 hours later

4. Or was it hacked? gigaom has some screenshots and background information.

   Sun May 08 11:38:51 +0200 2005 - Dominik Wagner, about 11 hours later

5. Now on Slashdot

   Sun May 08 18:36:39 +0200 2005 - Dominik Wagner, about 18 hours later