Square registers awkward FF13 domain

   Lightning, Sazh, and company may have another adventure in store for them now that it has come to light that Square has registered the domain name "finalfantasy13-2game.com." Guess anything shorter was already taken by squatters.

   The domain registration was spotted by "superannuation" who tweeted the news to his followers. The registration was processed on January 11, 2011 for a length of 2 years and handled by "Corporation Service Company" who performs domain registration services for Square Enix.

   The Corporation Service Company has also registered the following domains for Square in the past:

http://whois.domaintools.com/frontmissionevolved.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/niergame.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/gunloco.com

   Front Mission Evolved and Nier are released games. Gun Loco is scheduled for release on February 27, 2011.

Wikileaks IP

   Wikileaks.org, the domain name, is down but as Wikileaks tweeted yesterday, "WIKILEAKS: Free speech has a number: http://88.80.13.160." Cut and paste that string of numbers into the address bar of your browser and wikileaks.org pops up. The I.P address resolves to http://213.251.145.96 as of this morning. Punch that into a traceroute and the following information appears:

Results returned from whois.arin.net:

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NetRange:       213.0.0.0 - 213.255.255.255
CIDR:           213.0.0.0/8
OriginAS:       
NetName:        RIPE-213
NetHandle:      NET-213-0-0-0-1
Parent:         
NetType:        Allocated to RIPE NCC
NameServer:     TINNIE.ARIN.NET
NameServer:     NS-PRI.RIPE.NET
NameServer:     SUNIC.SUNET.SE
NameServer:     SNS-PB.ISC.ORG
NameServer:     SEC3.APNIC.NET
NameServer:     NS3.NIC.FR
NameServer:     SEC1.APNIC.NET
Comment:        These addresses have been further assigned to users in
Comment:        the RIPE NCC region. Contact information can be found in
Comment:        the RIPE database at http://www.ripe.net/whois
RegDate:        
Updated:        2009-03-25
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-213-0-0-0-1

OrgName:        RIPE Network Coordination Centre
OrgId:          RIPE
Address:        P.O. Box 10096
City:           Amsterdam
StateProv:      
PostalCode:     1001EB
Country:        NL
RegDate:        
Updated:        2004-12-13
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/RIPE

ReferralServer: whois://whois.ripe.net:43

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Results returned from whois.ripe.net:
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% Information related to '213.251.145.96 - 213.251.145.111'

inetnum:        213.251.145.96 - 213.251.145.111
netname:        WIKILEAKS
descr:          wikileaks.org
country:        AU
admin-c:        WL805-RIPE
tech-c:         WL805-RIPE
status:         ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by:         OVH-MNT
changed:        noc@ovh.net 20101202
source:         RIPE

person:         Wiki leaks
address:        BOX 4080
address:        University of Melbourne Branch
address:        Victoria 3052
address:        Australia
phone:          +33974760185
e-mail:         abusesp@gmail.com
nic-hdl:        WL805-RIPE
abuse-mailbox:  abusesp@gmail.com
mnt-by:         OVH-MNT
changed:        noc@ovh.net 20101202
source:         RIPE

% Information related to '213.251.128.0/18AS16276'

route:        213.251.128.0/18
descr:        OVH ISP
descr:        Paris, France
origin:       AS16276
notify:       noc@ovh.net
mnt-by:       OVH-MNT
changed:      noc@ovh.net 20010217
source:       RIPE