Our mail queues are backing up and hosts are not resolving/pinging. I have called several other techies on different ISPs and they report similar issues at this time. A Sam Spade lookup of various domains (aol, msn, yahoo, hotmail, etc.) yields results like this:
07/28/03 14:23:15 whois aol.com
.com is a domain of USA & International Commercial
Searches for .com can be run at
whois -h whois.crsnic.net aol.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 for detailed information.
AOL.COM.SAYS.HARASS.SOFTY797.FOR.SUBVERTER.NET
AOL.COM.RAPED.SUBVERTER.NET
AOL.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.GULLI.COM
AOL.COM.IS.0WNED.BY.SUB7.NET
AOL.COM.CANT.STOP.US.IFUD.COM
AOL.COM.AINT.GOT.AS.MUCH.FREE.PORN.AS.SECZ.COM
AOL.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: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 06:01:01 EDT <<<
07/28/03 14:23:15 whois aol.com
.com is a domain of USA & International Commercial
Searches for .com can be run at
whois -h whois.crsnic.net aol.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 for detailed information.
AOL.COM.SAYS.HARASS.SOFTY797.FOR.SUBVERTER.NET
AOL.COM.RAPED.SUBVERTER.NET
AOL.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.GULLI.COM
AOL.COM.IS.0WNED.BY.SUB7.NET
AOL.COM.CANT.STOP.US.IFUD.COM
AOL.COM.AINT.GOT.AS.MUCH.FREE.PORN.AS.SECZ.COM
AOL.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: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 06:01:01 EDT <<<