DNS delegation of wikimedia.org updated: May 24, 2013 11:45:09 AM
wikimedia.org is a domain owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., the American non-profit organization responsible for the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.org. The Wikimedia Foundation was created by Jimmy Wales as a way to gather all his different Wiki projects, including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource and Wikiquote, among others.
We pick m.root-servers.net, one of the 13 root servers (1), and ask it about wikimedia.org and learn that org is delegated to six name servers (2), so we ask d0.org.afilias-nst.org where we learn that wikimedia.org is delegated to three name servers, including ns1.wikimedia.org (3), so we ask that one and get the following answer:
wikimedia.org is a domain owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., the American non-profit organization responsible for the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.org. The Wikimedia Foundation was created by Jimmy Wales as a way to gather all his different Wiki projects, including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource and Wikiquote, among others. Wikimedia.org is a domain controlled by three domain name servers at wikimedia.org themselves. Two of them are on the same IP network. Incoming mail for wikimedia.org is handled by two mail servers also at wikimedia.org having a total of three IP numbers. Two of them are on the same IP network. Wikimedia.org has two IP numbers (208.80.152.200, 0:860:ed1a::). Both are on the same IP network.
Every fifth of them point only to the IP number 208.80.152.200. Worth noting is that all of the host names that point only to the IP number 208.80.152.200 use mail server group 1.