Marcus and the Canon 1DMkII

This is just weird:

http://canonusapressroom.com/images/1DMark...IWhitePaper.doc

The site looks legit. Anyway, scroll to the bottom last 2 pages of the white paper.

Look at the WHOIS for the site though:

Domain Name: CANONUSAPRESSROOM.COM

Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.

Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com

Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com

Name Server: NS2.CENTRIC.COM

Name Server: NS1.CENTRIC.COM

Status: ACTIVE

Updated Date: 18-sep-2003

Creation Date: 18-sep-2003

Expiration Date: 18-sep-2005

Seems a bit odd. :?

Yeah -- someone on dpreview pointed that out.

I wonder if they spoof everything, or if they are trying to actually serve up a history of Canon press releases?

I'm having problems figuring out the point.

I was wondering the same thing. Why bother? Maybe to get Canon to offer to buy the domain?

You made a small mistake: your Whois Quote shows the Registrar (The company that is running the register service) only, not the Registrant (The Person/Comp. that has the rights on the domain)

Here is the right entry:

Centric

27525 Newhall Ranch Road #9

Valencia, California 91355

United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com)

Domain Name: CANONUSAPRESSROOM.COM

Created on: 18-Sep-03

Expires on: 18-Sep-05

Last Updated on: 18-Sep-03

Administrative Contact:

Klein, Doug doug.klein@centric.com

Centric

27525 Newhall Ranch Road #9

Valencia, California 91355

United States

6612955795

Technical Contact:

Klein, Doug doug.klein@centric.com

Centric

27525 Newhall Ranch Road #9

Valencia, California 91355

United States

6612955795

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.CENTRIC.COM

NS2.CENTRIC.COM

Centric seems to be a California Based Advertisment Company, so it is not impossible, that the site is legit.

Simon

Hmmmm. Whatever the case, it's weird.