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.
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
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.
@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 (:
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!
Cool tool, I didnt know you could do this prior to reading this post.
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?
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