Hosting check
Who hosts instagram.com?
instagram.com is hosted by Facebook, Inc. in Helsinki, Finland. DNS is self-hosted. Email by Proofpoint. Its HTTPS certificate expires in 7 days.
Checked 14 Oct 2026 at 12:40 UTC
Server
157.240.205.174
Facebook, Inc. · AS32934
🇫🇮Helsinki, Finland
Checks
5 of 7 checks pass
Warnings are worth a look, but nothing is broken.
Hosting provider
High confidence
Facebook, Inc.
Hosting networkAS32934. A known platform or a plain hosting network answered, so the host is certain.
- Network
Facebook, Inc.AS32934 · 157.240.205.0/24meta.com
Owns the IP address that answered our lookup.
How we know
1 signal- NetworkAS32934Facebook, Inc.
IP & network
157.240.205.174 · Helsinki
- IP address
- 157.240.205.174
- Reverse DNS
- instagram-p42-shv-01-hel3.fbcdn.net
- Network
- Facebook, Inc.AS32934 · hosting
- Route
- 157.240.205.0/24
- Location
- Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
- Timezone
- Europe/Helsinki
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
- 60.1695,24.9354
- Postal code
- 00100
- Country code
- FI
DNS records
23 records in 7 types
- A
1 record
IPv4 addresses the name points to
- 157.240.205.174
- AAAA
1 record
IPv6 addresses the name points to
- 2a03:2880:f213:e4:face:b00c:0:4420
- NS
4 records
Nameservers that answer for the zone
- c.ns.instagram.com
- b.ns.instagram.com
- a.ns.instagram.com
- d.ns.instagram.com
- MX
4 records
Mail servers, lowest priority first
- 20 mx0a-00082601.pphosted.com
- 10 mxb-00082601.gslb.pphosted.com
- 10 mxa-00082601.gslb.pphosted.com
- 20 mx0b-00082601.pphosted.com
- CAA
1 record
Certificate authorities allowed to issue certificates
- 0 issue "digicert.com; account=271b0beda0771d006aa3a6c11b05187d456d6c239b46cb5241196095b09c92af"
- SOA
1 record
Zone authority: primary nameserver, admin mailbox and timers
- a.ns.instagram.com dns.facebook.com 4207849484 14400 1800 604800 3600
- TXT
11 records
1 SPF policy, 6 ownership proofs, 4 other
- 4cbb1b68-601f-4801-8e7f-e8f68a4a41dd
- facebook-domain-verification=hksvhmzcutq39t1kgpmlx11kt8314q
- hyWdekepiNsp/V9b1JCR+wZDdzbESurl4GqY+FLMfiN+7aeFaway0Art+kNDHeL5OnGZipNeV/iIC+lOONSQVQ==
- google-site-verification=GGtId51KFyq0hqX2xNvt1u0P9Xp0C7k6pp9do49fCNw
SSL certificate
Expires in 7 days
- Status
- Expires in 7 daysThe certificate is trusted, but renew it before it expires to avoid browser warnings.
- Issuer
- DigiCert Inc (DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1)
- Common name
- *.instagram.com
- Organization
- Meta Platforms, Inc.
- Protocol
- TLSv1.3
- Valid from
- July 23, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC
- Valid to
- October 21, 2026 at 11:59 PM UTCExpires in 7 days
Covered hostnames
6 names- *.instagram.com
- *.cdninstagram.com
- *.igsonar.com
- cdninstagram.com
- igsonar.com
- instagram.com
Certificate chain
3 certificatesMeta Platforms, Inc. (*.instagram.com)
Server certificate · Issued by DigiCert Inc (DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1) · Valid to 21 Oct 2026
DigiCert Inc (DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1)
Intermediate · Issued by DigiCert Inc (DigiCert Global Root G2) · Valid to 29 Mar 2031
DigiCert Inc (DigiCert Global Root G2)
Root · Valid to 15 Jan 2038
Serial number and fingerprints
- Serial number
- 068090DE8775F65DA1A3AE71E4D83B2B
- SHA-256
- E9:82:6E:2D:BF:AA:04:35:AD:9C:53:FC:A7:0E:96:A9:93:AE:91:A3:7E:75:21:DD:80:19:8B:09:0D:1E:93:93
- SHA-1
- 29:08:AB:5E:D2:45:7F:F0:A5:6C:11:6B:90:80:F0:01:96:42:5C:A2
Domain registration
Registered 04 Jun 2004
Expires in 2,790 daysRegistration data for instagram.com, from the registry's RDAP or WHOIS service.
- Registrar
- RegistrarSafe, LLCIANA ID 3237
- Registered
- 04 Jun 200422 years, 4 months old
- Expires
- 04 Jun 2034Expires in 2,790 days
- Last updated
- 25 Jun 2025
- DNSSEC
- Unsigned
- Abuse email
- abusecomplaints@registrarsafe.com
- Abuse phone
- +1-650-308-7004
Status
Nameservers
4 nameservers- a.ns.instagram.com
- b.ns.instagram.com
- c.ns.instagram.com
- d.ns.instagram.com
Source:rdap.verisign.com
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