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I understand the notion of whois - that is one can look up the person that registered a particular domain - by using this domain with a whois search engine.
But - is there any tool that would allow me to find out the location (or company) that a particular website is hosted at?
Many thanks.
I would be extremely grateful if you could recommend a specific, free traceroute tool.
To flesh out what I hope to do a bit more. I want to be able to type in the URL of a website (NOT the IP address of the website) - then click the button - then it will return the location (country) where this website is being hosted. Maybe also even the hosting company in that country, that is hosting the website.
I tried a few of the traceroute tools in the google listings but couldn't find one that could do this. If you could recommend a specific one I would be so, so grateful.
start -> run -> type 'cmd' hit enter
type 'ping' + domain name, for example:
ping yoursite.com
this will give you the IP address of the domain.
You can use arin whois to find out the ip block owner, this will generally tell you the physical area of the IP address.
Next go to netcraft.com enter the domain name of the site.
this will give you the hosting company that hosts the site. With the ip address and the hosting company you now know where the site is hosted.
