FLATTEN THE NARRATIVE
This is a great game. Here is how it goes.
You think of your favourite covidian cult marketing phrase:
- Lets think/pick a term: "Flatten The Curve" - perfect!
- Then you check whois.com for flattenthecurve.com
- You find out if it is already registered or not
- IF it is registered your GAW relevant result as below, if it is not registered you proceed to point 5
- You register it quick and keep it out of enemy hands. :)
RESULT:
flattenthecurve.com
Domain name: flattenthecurve.com
Registry Domain ID: 2501417366_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com
Registrar URL: http://www.namecheap.com
Updated Date: 2021-01-01T00:28:17.38Z
Creation Date: 2020-03-09T03:44:47.00Z
The TLD resolves to the CDC. Try it - www.flattenthecurve.com
Q: What is the date format for the ICANN records is it
A) YYYY-MM-DD
B) YYYY-DD-MM?
If it is A, then someone we must assume on behalf of the CDC, they potentially registered this now synonymous phrase on the 9th of March, 2020.
If it is B, then it is the 3rd of Sept, 2020.
Can anyone confirm what date format ICANN uses?
ICANN most likely uses the ISO 8601 standard for date formatting, so that would be YYYY-MM-DD. Pulling up the whois for google shows this :
meaning that it does indeed use the YYYY-MM-DD format.
BOOM!