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Who hosts hackernews.com?

Answer

news.ycombinator.com uses the M5 Computer Security network; the hosting company is unconfirmed.

Likely🇺🇸 United StatesIPv6

Checked 2 hours ago from Cloudflare ZRH in 2.5 s. This is a saved result.

Your next steps

What needs attention

Prioritized observations from this check. Review changes with whoever manages the website.

  1. Improve

    Review browser security headers

    Content-Security-Policy, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy did not meet the conservative header checks. This is not a complete security audit.

    Next step: Review these headers with the site developer and test policy changes before enforcing them.

  2. Good to know

    Only the network operator is identified

    The visible IP network is known, but no hosting-specific evidence confirms the company or reseller serving the site.

    Next step: Use the evidence as a network attribution and verify the hosting provider with the website owner if needed.

Evidence by layer

The company operating a network and the company selling the hosting can be different.

Network operators

M5HOSTING - M5 Computer Security, US

Network ownership alone does not confirm the retail hosting provider.

How we know

  • 209.216.230.207 belongs to AS21581 (M5HOSTING - M5 Computer Security, US), reverse DNS news.ycombinator.com
  • 2606:7100:1:67::26 belongs to AS21581 (M5HOSTING - M5 Computer Security, US)

Servers

The addresses the name points to and the networks that own them.

news.ycombinator.com (where the site redirects)

  • 209.216.230.207M5 Computer SecurityNetwork AS21581 (M5HOSTING - M5 Computer Security, US)🇺🇸 Registered in United States, block 209.216.230.0/24Reverse DNS news.ycombinator.com
  • 2606:7100:1:67::26M5 Computer SecurityNetwork AS21581 (M5HOSTING - M5 Computer Security, US)🇺🇸 Registered in United States, block 2606:7100::/32

hackernews.com (the address you entered)

  • 143.204.55.92Amazon CloudFrontNetwork AS16509 (Amazon Web Services)🇺🇸 Registered in United States, block 143.204.55.0/24Reverse DNS server-143-204-55-92.zrh52.r.cloudfront.net
  • 143.204.55.15Amazon CloudFrontNetwork AS16509 (Amazon Web Services)🇺🇸 Registered in United States, block 143.204.55.0/24Reverse DNS server-143-204-55-15.zrh52.r.cloudfront.net
  • 2600:9000:20a5:7200:c:bfb4:2d00:93a1Amazon Web ServicesNetwork AS16509🇺🇸 Registered in United States, block 2600:9000:20a5::/48
  • 143.204.55.63Not analysed
  • 143.204.55.105Not analysed
  • 2600:9000:20a5:200:c:bfb4:2d00:93a1Not analysed
  • 2600:9000:20a5:7400:c:bfb4:2d00:93a1Not analysed
  • 2600:9000:20a5:6000:c:bfb4:2d00:93a1Not analysed
  • 2600:9000:20a5:2200:c:bfb4:2d00:93a1Not analysed
  • 2600:9000:20a5:a400:c:bfb4:2d00:93a1Not analysed
  • 2600:9000:20a5:2600:c:bfb4:2d00:93a1Not analysed
  • 2600:9000:20a5:9a00:c:bfb4:2d00:93a1Not analysed

Reachable over IPv6.

Website

What the site answered when we visited its home page.

Status
200 OK
Address
https://news.ycombinator.com/
Page title
Hacker News
HTTPS
Yes
HTTP/3
Not advertised
Response time
542 ms from Cloudflare ZRH

Redirects (1)

  1. 301https://hackernews.com/
  2. 200https://news.ycombinator.com/

Security headers

C
  • Strict-Transport-Security
  • Content-Security-Policy (too weak)
  • Clickjacking protection
  • X-Content-Type-Options
  • Referrer-Policy (too weak)
  • Permissions-Policy

DNS

Who answers for the domain name, and its records.

DNS provider
Amazon Route 53
Name servers
ns-1352.awsdns-41.org
ns-1945.awsdns-51.co.uk
ns-578.awsdns-08.net
ns-60.awsdns-07.com
Zone
hackernews.com
DNSSEC
Not signed
Certificates
issue amazon.com
All DNS records (17)
TypeNameValueTTL
Ahackernews.com143.204.55.9260
Ahackernews.com143.204.55.1560
Ahackernews.com143.204.55.6360
Ahackernews.com143.204.55.10560
AAAAhackernews.com2600:9000:20a5:7200:c:bfb4:2d00:93a160
AAAAhackernews.com2600:9000:20a5:200:c:bfb4:2d00:93a160
AAAAhackernews.com2600:9000:20a5:7400:c:bfb4:2d00:93a160
AAAAhackernews.com2600:9000:20a5:6000:c:bfb4:2d00:93a160
AAAAhackernews.com2600:9000:20a5:2200:c:bfb4:2d00:93a160
AAAAhackernews.com2600:9000:20a5:a400:c:bfb4:2d00:93a160
AAAAhackernews.com2600:9000:20a5:2600:c:bfb4:2d00:93a160
AAAAhackernews.com2600:9000:20a5:9a00:c:bfb4:2d00:93a160
NShackernews.comns-1352.awsdns-41.org172800
NShackernews.comns-1945.awsdns-51.co.uk172800
NShackernews.comns-578.awsdns-08.net172800
NShackernews.comns-60.awsdns-07.com172800
CAAhackernews.com0 issue "amazon.com"300

Email

This domain does not receive email.

Anyone can still send mail pretending to be this domain. Publishing v=spf1 -all and a DMARC record with p=reject would stop that.

Mailbox provider
None
SPF
Missing
DMARC
Missing
MTA-STS
Not enabled

Domain registration

Registrar
Amazon Registrar, Inc.
Registered
29 Jul 1998 (28 years ago)
Paid until
28 Jul 2027 (in 273 days)
Last changed
23 Jun 2026
Status
Transfer lock (registrar)
DNSSEC at registry
No
Source
rdap.verisign.com

Observed changes

A compact record of what changed between public checks. Rechecks happen only when someone requests them.

History starts with saved public observations. No earlier changes are inferred.

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