What is Reverse IP Lookup
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Finding out who you share your web hosting space with, if you are on a shared hosting plan can sometimes be a good thing.
It lets you know how many other people are on your server and it also gives you a few other URLs to check it something on your own domain isn’t working right. There are at least a dozen good reasons why you might need to know this information.
One Web Hosting Show listener named Neal writes in with this question.
Hey Mitch, I ran across you site while looking for some info. I’m trying to find a way to put in a web hosts company name and get a list of all the sites hosted by them. Is there any way to do that? Thanks! - Neal
In this case, what you want to do is a reverse IP lookup. This looks at your domain’s IP address and then goes out to the Web and sees how many other domains share that IP address. These would be your neighbors on that server. Now in the case of our listener’s question he would need to figure out a way to find all of the IP addresses this web host in question owns.
That might be a harder and a stickier situation.
Some web hosts own one or two servers.
Others own two hundred or three hundred servers.
As you can see this might be a pain in the rear job if you really got serious with it. One tool I can suggest to you to get the job done is found at SEOLogs.com. There you can do the lookup for free. Another good source is DomainTools.com. If the list is too long they do charge you for accessing it.
Either way you go you should be able to get the job done. Now you can see who you share your web hosting with.
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