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FishyJoe said:
Please stop jumping to conclusions as to what caused amazon to go down. The evidence is pointing to a dns attacker.

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/06/06/briefly-amazon-com-offline



 your "update" with conjecture that it's DNS based is really, really uninformed.

try your "whois" test with microsoft.com or apple.com ... it's the same thing.

your awareness of how the version of the "whois" command operates is the only thing that's been compromised