Behold Airtel users, Vodafone is on air!! Have you recently surfed www.airtel.com ?
If not please do so and you'll be surprised to see that the site takes you to the website of Vodafone Spain!
The website: http://airtel.com
points to: http://www.vodafone.es/
I had done a whois on the airtel.com and here is the result.
Registry Whois
Domain Name: airtel.com
Status: ok
Registrar: CORE INTERNET COUNCIL OF REGISTRARS
Whois Server: whois.corenic.net
Referral URL: http://www.corenic.net
Expiration Date: 2008-12-14
Creation Date: 1998-12-15
Last Update Date: 2006-12-01
Name Servers:
dns1m11.airtel.es
dns2b11.airtel.es
Extended Info
IP Address: 212.73.32.209
IP Location: Spain
Website Status: active
Server Type: Netscape-Enterprise/4.1
Cache Date: 2008-01-16 03:05:44 MST
Compare Archived Data: 2007-05-12
Contact Info
Owner Airtel Movil S.a.
Email info [at] airtel.es
Phone +34 607134549
Address Avenida de Europa, 1
Alcobendas, Madrid 28108
SPAIN
Site Archive:
http://www.whois.ws/domain_archive-com/airtel.com/
None is clear till now what it is going on formally. Some says that Airtel (Spain ) has been taken over by Vodafone or its earlier name was Airtel something like that but you know ...rumours spread like fire! So lets see what happens in time to come.