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OK. Next question - why does the verisign whois server know about arbitarily nested subdomains, instead of only top-level registrations?

Take a look at my response upthread - basically, they're not sub domains, they're arbitrarily registered name server entries to provide glue to other lookups. The Whois record is just the side effect

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