DNS delegation of wordpress.com updated: May 22, 2013 4:46:09 AM
Wordpress.com is a domain owned by Automattic, Inc. Wordpress is a content management system used primarily for blogs. At Wordpress.com, users can host their blogs free of charge, using the open source software. The website has been open to public registrations since November 21, 2005. As of October 13th, 2012, there were more than 56 million blogs hosted at Wordpress.com.
We pick m.root-servers.net, one of the 13 root servers (1), and ask it about wordpress.com and learn that com is delegated to 13 name servers (2), so we ask f.gtld-servers.net where we learn that wordpress.com is delegated to six name servers, including ns6.wordpress.com (3), so we ask that one and get the following answer:
Wordpress.com is a domain owned by Automattic, Inc. Wordpress is a content management system used primarily for blogs. At Wordpress.com, users can host their blogs free of charge, using the open source software. The website has been open to public registrations since November 21, 2005. As of October 13th, 2012, there were more than 56 million blogs hosted at Wordpress.com. Wordpress.com is a domain controlled by six domain name servers at wordpress.com themselves. Some of them are on the same IP network. Incoming mail for wordpress.com is handled by one mail server at automattic.com. Wordpress.com has three IP numbers (72.233.104.124, 66.155.11.243, 76.74.254.126). All three of them are on different IP networks.