Who is hosting this website?
Paste any address. See the hosting provider, the IP and network, the CDN in front of it, the nameservers, the registrar and how old the domain is — and the real host behind Cloudflare, where a Lawyerd takedown has already uncovered it.
- Hosting provider Who runs the server — or the platform that serves the content.
- Behind Cloudflare CDN detection, and the real host where Lawyerd has revealed it.
- IP & network IP address, ASN, IP block and the country it is registered to.
- Domain & DNS Nameservers, registrar and how old the domain is.
- Free, no signup
- Live DNS, network registries and RDAP
- Sees past Cloudflare where Lawyerd has revealed the host
What a hosting check tells you
“Who hosts this site” has a precise answer: the company that runs the server the content is served from. The checker gets there the way a network engineer would — DNS first, then the registry record of the IP, then a check for a proxy in the way.
- 01 Hosting providerThe company whose server delivers the site — or the platform (Telegram, YouTube, Shopify) that hosts the content itself.
- 02 CDN or proxyCloudflare, DDoS-Guard, Fastly, Akamai. When one sits in front, its IP is what the world sees; the checker says so instead of naming the proxy as the host.
- 03 IP address and network (ASN)The address the domain resolves to and the autonomous system that announces it — the network registry’s record of who operates that IP block.
- 04 Nameservers and CNAMEWho answers DNS for the domain, and where the name points when it is an alias of a hosting platform.
- 05 RegistrarThe company the domain is registered through, straight from the registry’s RDAP record.
- 06 Domain ageThe registration date. Days-old domains are the norm for clone, phishing and scam sites — a useful first signal before you trust or report one.
Three companies are easy to mix up here: the registrar sold the domain name, the DNS provider answers for its nameservers, and the hosting provider runs the server. Only the last one can take a page down — which is why a complaint sent to the registrar usually goes nowhere.
Behind Cloudflare: where most hosting checkers stop
Roughly half of the sites people check with Lawyerd’s tools sit behind a CDN proxy. For those, a plain lookup names Cloudflare or DDoS-Guard as the “host” — the company in front of the server, not the one running it.
This checker detects the proxy and says so. Where an earlier Lawyerd takedown already made the proxy disclose the real hosting provider for that domain, the result shows it — something no other hosting checker has, because the data comes from real abuse filings, not from DNS.
Otherwise the way to the real host is the proxy’s own abuse process: it forwards a report to the host and may tell you who it is. Our guide on finding the real host behind Cloudflare walks through it, and the abuse-contact lookup gives the exact route for any URL.
Found the host? Here is how to report the site
A hosting provider removes content when it gets a complaint it can act on: the exact URLs, the right that is infringed, your authority to act and the statements the law requires — sent to its abuse desk, not to sales or support.
The free abuse-contact lookup gives you that desk for any site, with a notice draft. For the providers below, the directory has the verified mailbox and what each one needs.
- Report abuse to GoDaddy
- Report abuse to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Report abuse to Google Cloud Platform
- Report abuse to Hetzner Online (hetzner.com)
- Report abuse to Hostinger
- Report abuse to OVH SAS
- Report abuse to Contabo GmbH
- Report abuse to Namecheap, Inc.
- Report abuse to DigitalOcean
- Report abuse to Microsoft Azure
- Report abuse to IONOS
- Report abuse to Alibaba Cloud
- Directory All 160 providers →
Hosting check questions
How do I find out who is hosting a website?
Paste the address into the checker above. It resolves the domain to its IP address, looks up the network that owns that IP (for most sites, the hosting provider), and checks whether a CDN such as Cloudflare sits in front of the real server. You also get the nameservers, the registrar and the date the domain was registered.
Why does the checker say Cloudflare instead of the real host?
Cloudflare, DDoS-Guard and similar services are reverse proxies: the public IP belongs to them, and the server with the content stays hidden. Ordinary hosting checkers stop there. Where an earlier Lawyerd takedown already revealed the host behind that domain, the checker shows it; otherwise the route to the real host runs through the proxy’s own abuse process.
Is the hosting provider the same as the domain registrar?
No. The registrar sold the domain name; the hosting provider runs the server the site lives on; the DNS provider answers for the nameservers. They are often three different companies. A complaint about content goes to the hosting provider — the registrar generally cannot remove a page.
How do I report a website to its hosting provider?
Send a complaint to the host’s abuse desk with the exact URLs, the right you rely on (copyright, trademark, fraud), your authority to act and the statements the law requires. The free abuse-contact lookup gives you the mailbox or report form and a notice draft for the URL you checked.
Does the website know I checked it?
The check runs from Lawyerd’s servers against public DNS, the network registries and Lawyerd’s own takedown records — your browser never connects to the site you check.
How accurate is the country shown?
It is the country the IP block is registered to in the regional internet registry, not a geolocation of the server. For large clouds and CDNs the server can sit in another country than the one on the registration.
Or have it removed for you
Knowing the host is step one. Removal takes a notice under the right statute, follow-up on a schedule, and escalation when a host goes quiet. Lawyerd files under counsel and tracks every case until the content is verifiably gone.