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Tim Robbins · 09-06-2008 2:15pm #1

Is there anyway I can find out who is hosting a particular website?
Cheers

tricky D · 09-06-2008 2:22pm

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.somesite.com

mneylon · 09-06-2008 2:22pm

You could check dnsstuff.com to see who the domain's ip points at - cross reference that with the nameservers

Bob the Builder · 09-06-2008 4:25pm

www.who.is does the job as well.

mneylon · 09-06-2008 4:54pm

nevf wrote: »

www.who.is does the job as well.

It doesn't do ip lookups terribly well and gets completely confused by .ie domains:

http://www.who.is/whois-ie/ip-address/blacknight.ie/

Trying to work out who hosts a domain from that would require ESP

Liam Byrne · 09-06-2008 5:04pm

You could try doing "tracert" to the domain name, and then do a "tracert" to the IP address that gets reported back.

mneylon · 09-06-2008 6:55pm

Liam Byrne wrote: »

You could try doing "tracert" to the domain name, and then do a "tracert" to the IP address that gets reported back.

Yes, but a LOT of the smaller hosters don't have their own IP allocations, so you'd only see the netblock owner

Bob the Builder · 09-06-2008 8:47pm

blacknight wrote: »

It doesn't do ip lookups terribly well and gets completely confused by .ie domains:

http://www.who.is/whois-ie/ip-address/blacknight.ie/

Trying to work out who hosts a domain from that would require ESP

eh, thats something I never knew! I always thought it was a good website, and changed from dnsstuff because it was faster... faster, but obviously worse.

mneylon · 09-06-2008 11:28pm

nevf wrote: »

eh, thats something I never knew! I always thought it was a good website, and changed from dnsstuff because it was faster... faster, but obviously worse.

It's fine for basic stuff ie. who owns a domain, but hopeless for more advanced stuff. The ip whois stuff is obviously working from the arin db only

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