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Who hosts dropbox.com?
dropbox.com is hosted by Dropbox, Inc.. DNS by Amazon Route 53. Email by Proofpoint.
Checked 14 Oct 2026 at 12:40 UTC
Server
Anycast: nearest of many locations
162.125.248.18
Dropbox, Inc. · AS19679
🇺🇸San Francisco, United States
Checks
6 of 7 checks pass
Warnings are worth a look, but nothing is broken.
Hosting provider
High confidence
Dropbox, Inc.
Hosting networkAS19679. A known platform or a plain hosting network answered, so the host is certain.
- Network
Dropbox, Inc.AS19679 · 162.125.248.0/24dropbox.com
Owns the IP address that answered our lookup.
How we know
1 signal- NetworkAS19679Dropbox, Inc.
IP & network
162.125.248.18 · San Francisco
- IP address
- 162.125.248.18
- Network
- Dropbox, Inc.AS19679 · hosting
- Route
- 162.125.248.0/24
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United StatesAnycast: where our lookup landed
- Timezone
- America/Los_Angeles
This is an anycast address: many locations announce it, and each visitor reaches the nearest one. The location above is only where our lookup landed.
Coordinates, postal code and company
Geolocation describes the network's registered location, not a street address. For a data center IP the postal code and coordinates are approximate.
- Coordinates
- 37.7621,-122.3971
- Postal code
- 94107
- Country code
- US
DNS records
61 records in 7 types
- A
1 record
IPv4 addresses the name points to
- 162.125.248.18
- AAAA
1 record
IPv6 addresses the name points to
- 2620:100:6040:18::a27d:f812
- NS
4 records
Nameservers that answer for the zone
- ns-1162.awsdns-17.org
- ns-1949.awsdns-51.co.uk
- ns-315.awsdns-39.com
- ns-564.awsdns-06.net
- MX
2 records
Mail servers, lowest priority first
- 10 mxa-001ed902.gslb.pphosted.com
- 10 mxb-001ed902.gslb.pphosted.com
- CAA
3 records
Certificate authorities allowed to issue certificates
- 0 issue "amazonaws.com"
- 0 issue "digicert.com"
- 0 issue "letsencrypt.org;validationmethods=dns-01;accounturi=https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/acct/2079416047"
- SOA
1 record
Zone authority: primary nameserver, admin mailbox and timers
- ns-564.awsdns-06.net awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com 1 7200 900 1209600 86400
- TXT
49 records
1 SPF policy, 46 ownership proofs, 2 other
- 1e6de3584eb44e3e9fde429fb262995bb3f6422cab16daeff7cba598948242b8
- MS=ms91256510
- adobe-idp-site-verification=4977108a-46c6-4763-a3cc-b23b3d87e5cc
- anthropic-domain-verification-jk1bd4=WXuV479YDJRmIn8CJaIpZaW4S
SSL certificate
- Status
- Valid certificateTrusted by browsers and covers dropbox.com. Expires in 185 days.
- Issuer
- DigiCert Inc (DigiCert Global G3 TLS ECC SHA384 2020 CA1)
- Common name
- *.app.dropbox.com
- Organization
- Dropbox, Inc
- Protocol
- TLSv1.3
- Valid from
- October 1, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC
- Valid to
- April 17, 2027 at 11:59 PM UTCExpires in 185 days
Covered hostnames
3 names- *.app.dropbox.com
- *.dropbox.com
- dropbox.com
Certificate chain
3 certificatesDropbox, Inc (*.app.dropbox.com)
Server certificate · Issued by DigiCert Inc (DigiCert Global G3 TLS ECC SHA384 2020 CA1) · Valid to 17 Apr 2027
DigiCert Inc (DigiCert Global G3 TLS ECC SHA384 2020 CA1)
Intermediate · Issued by DigiCert Inc (DigiCert Global Root G3) · Valid to 13 Apr 2031
DigiCert Inc (DigiCert Global Root G3)
Root · Valid to 15 Jan 2038
Serial number and fingerprints
- Serial number
- 047B5A213646D832ADC45350A28287FC
- SHA-256
- A1:A2:7D:F1:F5:15:2E:B6:C0:02:34:B7:26:CC:54:0A:C3:71:52:FA:D6:AB:2F:EB:8B:FE:A6:D0:23:77:5D:BA
- SHA-1
- 83:6B:68:0A:B4:97:54:C7:AA:86:30:0B:E2:77:E9:33:0C:7F:A4:F5
Domain registration
Registered 28 Jun 1995
Expires in 255 daysRegistration data for dropbox.com, from the registry's RDAP or WHOIS service.
- Registrar
- MarkMonitor Inc.IANA ID 292
- Registrant
- Dropbox, Inc.US
- Registered
- 28 Jun 199531 years, 3 months old
- Expires
- 27 Jun 2027Expires in 255 days
- Last updated
- 26 May 2025
- DNSSEC
- Unsigned
- Abuse email
- abusecomplaints@markmonitor.com
- Abuse phone
- +1.2086851750
Status
Nameservers
4 nameservers- ns-1162.awsdns-17.org
- ns-1949.awsdns-51.co.uk
- ns-315.awsdns-39.com
- ns-564.awsdns-06.net
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