how can you find out who hosts a particular URL?

[CanuckAmok]

anyone know how to find the origin/host server company of a website?

[Guy Fawkes]

1. send then an email... (to the webmaster or webadmin)

[CanuckAmok]

2. and failing that?

I'm trying to source the origin of a site someone is using to promote illegal activity on property I own. I'm trying to gather some evidence before informing the police.

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[cheezus]

3. not an exact since, but

try a whois (the command from unix is: whois (hostname))
there are some webbased whois

this will tell you who owns the domain, but that's not always meaningful. I'd also try a traceroute. You can see what hosts are close-- those are usually the company.

but if it's at a commercial webhost,a nd the dns was handled by them, it's pretty hard sort of calling the webhost and doing some social engineering.

[Rooktoven]

4. at a command prompt do

whois <name>
like:

whois: siteinquestion.com

Works on linux and Mac, I _think_ xp has "whois".

Also check out www.netcraft.com. If you plug the url (sans http://) in the "what's that site running field, it will tell you in the far left column who owns the block of IP addresses for the site.

[SimpleMan]

5. Who is link:

http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index.jhtml

[CanuckAmok]

7. that did it...

thanks.

[moof]

6. Turn them in to Ashcrop for dancing n/t