$ whois microsoft.com

This is a common point of confusion regarding the `whois` utility [0] [1].

[0] https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=whois+google.com+hacke...

[1] http://razzed.com/2009/01/15/at-first-i-thought-google-was-b...

Nothing wrong with that, even though I don't know why these domains are included in the microsoft.com whois record.

All the weird domains you see on the top are not actually affiliated with microsoft.com, just subdomains registered by someone else.

I remember seeing these kind of hostnames on IRC. It was cool... at the time.

Eh it seems I'm learning about the whois command today...

http://razzed.com/2009/01/15/at-first-i-thought-google-was-b...

Thanks @jtaylor