Find Out Who is Hosting Any Site With WhoIsHostingThis
I’m proud to present the first web service from the FranticIndustries workshop. Reviewing hundreds of web services over the past few months must result in some (hopefully good) ideas, and WhoIsHostingThis is a product of one such idea, realized with the help of a fellow developer Gordan, who did a tremendous job in a short period of time.
Finding out who is web hosting any particular website can be tough. Yes, there are many tools that do reverse IP lookups and give you all sorts of data related to any domain, but I’ve encountered none which give a clear and simple answer (and a link) to a web host of any web site (this includes top level domains for specific countries).
Although it seems simple, WhoIsHostingThis does more than just retrieving an item from a database. To my knowledge, it’s impossible to do it in that way, unless you already have a huge database of web hosting providers. Instead, it does some simple “research”, using several different methods to retrieve data. It’s not 100% accurate, but it’s still the best tool out there if you simply want to know who is the web host of a website.
WhoIsHostingThis strives for simplicity: instead of bombarding you with IPs, we give you one link. But, we also offer several cool tools: a bookmarklet, a Firefox search engine plugin, a top list of requests, and a tag cloud of recently requested domains.
In other FranticIndustries-related news, expect a new web site soon - a sort of a simple hub which will link to all our blogs and projects (and yes, there are more on the way). Also, expect an increase of guest posts and perhaps some new authors, since the summer is closing in and I, too, have to rest sometimes.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Wonderful tool, Stan! I just tested this tool and gotta say that by launching this tool, you made my web life a lot easier.
Oh, forgot to check Mashable and this blog. Gonna check now!
- Avi
July 5th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Great tool!
But if I took my domain rockwitch.com and answer is nss.ee but it’s the server park company. Hosting is in ekodu.net hosting service.
July 6th, 2007 at 12:21 am
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July 6th, 2007 at 1:19 am
@everyone: thanks.
@kixs: yes, the tool relies on what’s entered in the official database records, then takes all that data and tries to get the right result. Often the result is somewhat correct, but a bit off, like in your case. It happens often when people buy hosting from a reseller - our result gives the real host. Not sure if I should try to fix that, though, because the result is technically correct (:
July 8th, 2007 at 11:22 am
This is realy quite interesting! From time to time I was wondering about the host of a particular blog. Now I can find it out!
Thanks!
July 10th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Cool tool, I didnt know you could do this prior to reading this post.
July 10th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Does this tool find the ip address and then look it up to determin the host? After all the domain should not be associated with the hosting organization, but the person that owns it. That seems logical, but the tool does not work with an ip address.
Now that I have followed this line of thought, I see that makes sense.
One more thing. Any idea why some sites return this responce?
We’re currently not available to provide the result for this query. We apologize for the incovenience.
Sincerely,
Robert McCulloch
automated-linking-review.com
March 30th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
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June 9th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
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Keep up the good work.
June 24th, 2009 at 6:47 am
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June 24th, 2009 at 8:15 am
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Thanks,
Jeanine
July 14th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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December 10th, 2009 at 10:51 am
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December 15th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
I only unpacked and set this printer up yesterday; it prints fine. But I want to offer a few observations for you.
Canon claims duplex printing. If you have Snow Leopard, duplex printing is NOT available. Don’t know about earlier versions of OS X.
I haven’t burned thru the ink cartridges that came with the machine, but that will probably happen soon. Naturally, Canon’s price for their own cartridges is astronomical (as is typical for most all ink jet manufacturers). I ordered some non-Canon cartridges for my reserve when I need them. No telling if they are as good and reliable as the OEM cartridges. I’ll post again later once I find out.
Also, the installation disk, which includes drivers AND important utilities (like the scanner software) was a no-go on Snow Leopard. All of the Canon software HAD to be downloaded from the Canon website. Fortunately that was simple (be careful though and read the driver descriptions - sometimes the Spanish ones are first, sometimes the English ones are first).
I bought this printer intending to network it, but I’ve postponed getting into that for now. I merely connected the printer directly to a USB port on my iMac (which you MUST do for initial configuration anyway). Before I installed ANY drivers, I noticed that the printer worked just fine (from various apps, including MS Word for Mac 2008). So, I logged off my iMac and logged back in as another user (my wife, who does not have admin rights to the iMac). Oddly, the printer worked fine from some apps (I tried printing mail, for instance) but did NOT work from MS Word 2008. Once I installed the Canon drivers, only then did the last thing work.
One highlight: expecting the absolute worst experience, I called Canon tech support. I got through to a tech very quickly. He was very articulate, very courteous, very professional, and extremely patient. I was totally amazed; there are so many bitter diatribes on the Internet about bad tech support from many manufacturers. But my experience was exemplary. Of course, this was just one “data point” so I can’t say whether I was just lucky, but the Canon guy was awesome.
Follow-up (Oct 22, 2009):
Today I went ahead and tackled the job of setting up the MX 860 on my home network (and taking it off the USB connection to one of my Macs). The setup is a little tricky and complicated, as before I had to rely on Canon tech support (there are drivers and software to download, a configuration tool to download and run, system settings to change, and settings to change on the Canon front panel). I called them twice this morning and had exactly the same experience that I cited in my initial review. The support techs were outstanding, and easily resolved my issues. With their help I ran into NO technical problems. Now both of my Macs can print to, and scan from, the MX860 through my ethernet router.
The next step will be to set up a couple laptops that connect to my router wirelessly (my D-Link router accepts wireless connections and also has 4 hard ethernet connections). The tech person assured me that I can expect both printing and scanning to work just as reliably from the wireless connections. But so far, so extremely good.
December 27th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Not much to say about printer ink. This is what is needed for my Canon printer and works great. I’ve always bought my ink from Amazon.
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