I checked out another domain to make sure this was not some kind of gag. While it might be Google's domain that got hacked and that might be funny at some level, it points to a significant security problem with domain registry and name server systems. Is there more information about what system was compromised; where it was located; and how this was accomplished? It is exceedingly scary to think that there are people who could hijack any domain without any difficulty whatsoever.
Google was not hacked, they didn't renew the domain by some way and someone else snatched it. Google said 'we have money and lawers' the someone backed down and gave them back the domain
Nothing has been hacked here. Any idiot could do this. If I get bored, I'll blog about it, and tell you how it is done. IT IS NOT A HACK!
Amazingly, you'll find the same thing for yahoo http://whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=yahoo&tld=com Believing that "google.com" whois got hacked just shows that you don't really know what a domain name is, as opposed to a subdomain
I highly doubt that Google didn't renew their own domain name. But I've never seen this before, so you'd have to ask who or where ever the information for whois is located.
The first time I did this was in 1998. I did it to rosie.com. It said something like, rosie.com.is.a.big.phat.ass.slob.mia.net It's pretty easy to do, and amused me for about 5 minutes one day about 9 years ago. I was bored.
Use a terminal program or shell and query the whois directly instead of using some hokey whois script web page.
You probably think that this would be imposible. Maybie this is a whois.net script bug.. but i remember times when even nasa websites realy got "hacked" and showed on cnn. So.. everything is hackable.
No, this is because they blocked their actual information with private reg etc. Also try other sites like paypal, ebay, yahoo you will get similar results.
It is not a bug. It is not a hack. Read my BLOG!!! I sometimes wonder if anyone actually reads threads from the beginning anymore. Give me your domain name, and I will do exactly the same. It is not a bug, not a hack, no one has been own3d. Someone just created a DNS Server Whois record which is bogus! It's easy.