Check Who is Hosting Any Website
Filed in: Reviews, Web, Web Development — July 24th, 2007
Have you ever wondering who is the web hosting provider of your favorite websites? Who is Hosting This? might be able give you an idea.
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Who Is Hosting This is a web tool that enables you to find out who is hosting any website. Simply submit the website domain name, and you will get a link to the website’s hosting provider. That’s easy!
If you use the tool often, web browser search bookmarklet and plugins are available.
How does it work?
WhoIsHostingThis is not mystery as it seems to be. Basically, it checks the IP address of the domain name then check the owner of that IP range and return a link to the IP range owner (hosting provider).
Therefore, the result might not 100% accurate if the hosting company does not own that IP range. Or, you will get the website is same as hosting provider if the website bought an IP range and is self-hosted (e.g. Google).
Have you discover any interesting result? 
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July 24th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
there’s also another similar and interesting service called “Who is The Owner?” (http://www.whoistheowner.net) which is able to perform universal whois queries in order to retrieve the registration info for any submitted domain.
July 24th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
my blog hosted at exabytes, but it shows TM NET SDN BHD… ist mean Exabytes server actually is using TM server
July 24th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
@iCalvyn: I think Exabytes has own servers and put in TM NET’s data centre. TM NET owns the IP range.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:26 am
I agree on this fact. Anybody owning a good data about Ip ranges specially on domains will be able to pont to a correct data. This post can also be useful for people who want to track down theft content cases
July 25th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Now I know who got domain of my interest! It’s a web hosting company where I use their search box to find the availability of that domain! Thanks dude for ruining my day..
July 25th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Hey Liew, is your hosting in overseas? Local ones not good?
July 26th, 2007 at 1:23 am
@Teh Theng Heng: because my main visitors are not Malaysian only.
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