Web Host Lookup Tools
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Haven’t you ever wondered to yourself who was hosting that web site you just visited? Maybe there was something about the server quality while browsing that you really liked?
Maybe your just a nosy person that likes to know what is going on in the dark side of server administration. You want to know things you’re not suppose to know, right?
No matter what your reason is, WhoIsHostingThis.com should answer any and all questions you might have.
So how do you use this fabulous tool? You type in a domain name, hit the button and then they tell you something to the effect of, “ThisDomain.com is hosted by ThatWebHost.com”. Then you get links out to visit each. It is simple. It is straight forward. It gets to the point. I love it.
Now for some fun, lets just type in a few random domains and let see who hosts them.
- Digg.com’s web host is show up as Digg Inc. I am guessing that they probably own their own servers in this case.
- TechCrunch.com’s web host is Media Temple. No real suprise there as they do a lot of the popular blog hosting out there.
- Google.com is hosted by Google.
As you can see this can become very addictive. This is a very neat and unique tool that I expect to see copied (now that it is out) hundreds of more times by other people with web host tools and services.
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This website was spread across blogs and forums all last week. But I gotta say it is not that great of a tool. All it is, is a fancy IP Whois. Because that is all it is doing is looking up the owner of the ip address and displaying it fancy :). Of course all the big names come back correctly, try a resellers account. Probably will show a little more than they’d like. :c)