Preguntas frecuentes

Conocer el verdadero servidor web de un sitio en particular es útil en todo tipo de situaciones. Por ejemplo:

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. Stopping 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 behavior: 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. Here are a couple of ideas for further action:

1. Many providers 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.

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

Many budget hosts — including big players, like HostGator — rent their servers from The Planet.

We're usually able to ID resellers by either their nameservers or IP range. Unfortunately, no technique is 100% reliable.

That means that you may see some sites identified as hosted by The Planet — the datacenter — when the host the site owner uses is really a retail hosting company, like HostGator.

The simple answer is: we're right more often than our competitors. Unlike tools like Netcraft and DomainTools, 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 web host so, obviously, they host themselves. The confusion comes because they rent space in The Planet's datacenter.

Try the same search on WhoIsHostingThis 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.

WhoIsHostingThis is run by a crack team of developers, designers, researchers, and writers. You can read more about the people us on our Meet the Team page.

We know there are a lot of crooked review sites about. Rather than try to answer in a couple of lines, we've explained why our hosting reviews are different here:

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