Ok guys, so this is what I do for a livin here. When your interested in a website that your uncertain of, go to dnsstuff.com and use the dns lookup button with the name of the website you want to check. I.e. this one
It gives you this result:
How I am searching:
Searching for
www.alibaba.com A record at k.root-servers.net [193.0.14.129]: Got referral to e.gtld-servers.net. (zone: com.) [took 86 ms]
Searching for
www.alibaba.com A record at e.gtld-servers.net. [192.12.94.30]: Got referral to ns8.alibabaonline.com. (zone: alibaba.com.) [took 78 ms]
Searching for
www.alibaba.com A record at ns8.alibabaonline.com. [60.190.232.99]: Got CNAME of
www.gslb.alibaba.com. and referral to 3dnssh.alibabaonline.com. [took 593 ms]
Searching for
www.gslb.alibaba.com A record at i.root-servers.net [192.36.148.17]: Got referral to I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. (zone: com.) [took 187 ms]
Searching for
www.gslb.alibaba.com A record at I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.43.172.30]: Got referral to ns8.alibabaonline.com. (zone: alibaba.com.) [took 108 ms]
Searching for
www.gslb.alibaba.com A record at ns8.alibabaonline.com. [60.190.232.99]: Reports
www.gslb.alibaba.com. [took 608 ms]
Response:
Domain Type Class TTL Answer
www.gslb.alibaba.com. A IN 77 60.190.241.1 gslb.alibaba.com. NS IN 56159 3dnssh.alibabaonline.com. gslb.alibaba.com. NS IN 56159 3dnshz.alibabaonline.com. 3dnshz.alibabaonline.com. A IN 172800 218.108.233.62 3dnssh.alibabaonline.com. A IN 172800 60.190.232.196
NOTE: One or more CNAMEs were encountered.
www.alibaba.com is really
www.gslb.alibaba.com.
Then:
Click on the link with the address 60.190.241.1 and you will get the following:
China [City: ]
[Caching always on for search engines and InfoPath]
ARIN says that this IP belongs to APNIC; I'm looking it up there.
Using 30+ day old [STALE - being deleted now] cached answer (or, you can get fresh results).
Hiding E-mail address (you can get results with the E-mail address).
% [whois.apnic.net node-2]
% Whois data copyright terms
http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
inetnum: 60.190.241.0 - 60.190.241.255
netname: ZHEJIANG-ALIBABA-LTD
country: CN
descr: Alibaba Com (China) Technology Co.,ltd.
descr:
admin-c: DX215-AP
tech-c: CH122-AP
status: ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE
changed: ********@dcb.hz.zj.cn 20060405
mnt-by: MAINT-CN-CHINANET-ZJ-HZ
source: APNIC
role: CHINANET-ZJ Hangzhou
address: No.352 Tiyuchang Road,Hangzhou,Zhejiang.310003
country: CN
phone: +86-571-85157929
fax-no: +86-571-85102776
e-mail: *********@mail.hz.zj.cn
trouble: send spam reports to *********@mail.hz.zj.cn
trouble: and abuse reports to *********@mail.hz.zj.cn
trouble: Please include detailed information and times in UTC
admin-c: CH54-AP
tech-c: CH54-AP
nic-hdl: CH122-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-CHINANET-ZJ
changed: ******@dcb.hz.zj.cn 20031204
source: APNIC
person: Defang Xiao
nic-hdl: DX215-AP
e-mail: ******@mail.hz.zj.cn
address: 6Floor CUANGYIE Hall Huaxing Road Hangzhou,Zhejiang.Postcode:310000
phone: +86-571-85022088
country: CN
changed: ********@dcb.hz.zj.cn 20060331
mnt-by: MAINT-CN-CHINANET-ZJ-HZ
source: APNIC
If your in doubt, This gives you all the info you need to check on a website for fraudular activity etc... Please do this if EVER in doubt or uncertain.
