DNS delegation of weather.com updated: May 20, 2013 8:22:05 PM
The Weather Channel (TWC) is the company behind the domain weather.com. TWC has long been involved with cable and satellite television broadcasting, with weather forecasts and news. In the past decade, however, their has started shifting more and more toward online broadcasting, using their flagship website weather.com, following overall trends in society.
We pick i.root-servers.net, one of the 13 root servers (1), and ask it about weather.com and learn that com is delegated to 13 name servers (2), so we ask g.gtld-servers.net where we learn that weather.com is delegated to three name servers, including dns2.weather.com (3), so we ask that one and get the following answer:
The Weather Channel (TWC) is the company behind the domain weather.com. TWC has long been involved with cable and satellite television broadcasting, with weather forecasts and news. In the past decade, however, their has started shifting more and more toward online broadcasting, using their flagship website weather.com, following overall trends in society. Weather.com is a domain controlled by three domain name servers at weather.com themselves. All three of them are on different IP networks. Incoming mail for weather.com is handled by five mail servers at googlemail.com and google.com having a total of 49 IP numbers. There are 14 duplicated IP numbers. Some of them are on the same IP network. Weather.com has six IP numbers (96.8.85.132, 96.8.80.132, 96.8.81.132, 96.8.84.132, 96.8.83.132, 96.8.82.132). All six of them are on different IP networks.
Johan Boger
