[ILUG-Social] Re: Strange alias thingy

[Colm Buckley]

Stephen Shirley wrote:

> In my infinete wisdom (tm), I did and nslookup on ls, it turned out
> that it's an alias for loe2.lesoff.co.za who are an ISP in south
> africa. Isn't that and illegal alias - not being in one of the TLD and
> all, anyone?

It *is* one of the TLDs - LS. is Lesotho.  Pretty natural for the
Lesotho TLD to be run from a South African ISP, I think...

dagda:colm ~ (8) % whois ls1-dom
[...]
Registrant:
Lesotho (Kingdom of) top-level domain (LS1-DOM)
   National University of Lesotho
   P.O. Roma 180
   Lesotho

   Domain Name: LS

   Administrative Contact:
      Lebeko, Sello  (SL217)  ll.sello at NUL.LS
      +266 340601 (FAX) +266 340000
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Jacot-Guillarmod, Francois  (FJG4)  ccfj at HIPPO.RU.AC.ZA
      +27 461 318284 ext. 284

   Record last updated on 06-Apr-99.
   Record created on 13-Jan-93.
   Database last updated on 10-Aug-99 04:40:25 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   HIPPO.RU.AC.ZA               146.231.128.1
   RAIN.PSG.COM                 147.28.0.34
   DAISY.EE.UND.AC.ZA           146.230.192.18

         Colm

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