The simple answer is: we’re right more often than our competitors. Unlike tools like Netcraft and Domain Tools, we use multiple data sources to answer your queries. That means, when it comes to the question, ‘Who hosts this website?’, we’re much more likely to give you the correct answer.

Let's look at a quick example…. Search for the domain HostGator.com on a service like DomainTools or Netcraft , and you'll be told that the site is hosted by The Planet. That’s wrong.

HostGator is a webhost so, obviously, they host themselves. The confusion comes because they rent space in The Planet’s datacenter.

Try the same search on Who Is Hosting This and you'll get a proper answer: Hostgator host Hostgator.com. We use multiple sources of information to make sure we get the answer right more often than our competitors.

Knowing the real web host of a particular website is useful in all sorts of situations. For example:

1. Competitive intelligence: Knowing who hosts your competitors’ sites may help you understand their web strategy.
2. Research: If you’re considering a new host, it can be useful to find out the hosts behind similar sites to yours.
3. Content theft: Knowing the host of a website that’s stolen your content is the first step in filing a DMCA complaint.
4. Dealing with malicious behaviour: Most hosts take a dim view of comment spammers, DDoS attacks, malware etc, so reporting the site will often get the badly behaved booted off their host.

No. Unfortunately, there’s no way to provide 100% accurate results. However, we use several data sources to find out who is hosting a website, which makes us more accurate and reliable than other similar services. If you find a bad result, you can help us by reporting it for investigation.

It’s possible. We’re as sorry as you that there’s no way to provide 100% accurate results [link to above]. Here are a couple of ideas for further action:

1. Many host resell hosting or rent rackspace from larger hosting companies. So our results may sometimes show the IP range owner (ie. the larger host), rather than the reseller. We do try to identify both companies where possible.

2. Try hitting the 'refresh data' link. If this site has moved hosts recently, our results may still show the old host.

The company responsible has their own IP range. Some common examples are Amazon and eBay. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide detailed information about their hosting setups.

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That’s very unusual and usually only happens with domains that haven’t been renewed. Please check the domain still exists, then contact us if the problem remains.

DMCA stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act. A DMCA notice is a tool for removing content that is copyrighted from a website or search engine results page.

Although you can file a DMCA yourself, it can be complex & time consuming. We offer a DMCA notice service, which includes research, filing the notice, monitoring the situation and a preservation of the evidence trail.

Yes. See our DMCA takedown service.

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