Hosting check
Who hosts valvesoftware.com?
valvesoftware.com is behind Akamai, which hides the origin host. DNS by Akamai Edge DNS. Email by Mimecast. Its HTTPS certificate expires in 27 days.
Checked 14 Oct 2026 at 12:40 UTC
Server
96.16.49.15
Akamai International B.V. · AS20940
🇸🇪Sundbyberg, Sweden
Checks
4 of 7 checks pass
Warnings are worth a look, but nothing is broken.
Hosting provider
Low confidence
Akamai
CDNOrigin host hidden. A CDN answers for this site and hides the origin server, so the real host is not visible from outside.
- CDN
Answers every request and forwards it to an origin server it does not reveal. The IP address below belongs to the CDN.
- Network
Owns the IP address that answered our lookup.
How we know
2 signals- NetworkAS20940Akamai
- Reverse DNSa96-16-49-15.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.comAkamai
IP & network
96.16.49.15 · Sundbyberg
- IP address
- 96.16.49.15
- Reverse DNS
- a96-16-49-15.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
- Network
- Akamai International B.V.AS20940 · hosting
- Route
- 96.16.49.0/24
- Location
- Sundbyberg, Stockholm, Sweden
- Timezone
- Europe/Stockholm
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
- 59.3613,17.9711
- Postal code
- 172 00
- Country code
- SE
DNS records
27 records in 6 types
- A
2 records
IPv4 addresses the name points to
- 96.16.49.15
- 96.16.49.34
- NS
6 records
Nameservers that answer for the zone
- a9-66.akam.net
- a1-194.akam.net
- a2-64.akam.net
- a7-66.akam.net
- a22-67.akam.net
- a24-64.akam.net
- MX
2 records
Mail servers, lowest priority first
- 10 us-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com
- 10 us-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com
- CAA
3 records
Certificate authorities allowed to issue certificates
- 0 iodef "mailto:ssl-abuse@valvesoftware.com"
- 0 issue "letsencrypt.org"
- 0 issue "digicert.com"
- SOA
1 record
Zone authority: primary nameserver, admin mailbox and timers
- a1-164.akam.net admin.valvesoftware.com 2025071677 3600 900 2419200 3600
- TXT
13 records
1 SPF policy, 7 ownership proofs, 5 other
- logmein-verification-code=068f4cd3-ee6d-4546-b163-777e0b540571
- ZOOM_verify_6txb0CpTQ16fLBlTpAC9dQ
- atlassian-domain-verification=8W72YZrigWSkrAXgYFb9cvpSo8ydO+mOsn4eGqOaBQvF3dbPdako8DVUoKFreZKO
- d+KwrMsuiYaHmSsnhrKFxbXoIU3kTRfJDt0M9YFs5wZl9Laidl0bba2ETVT3IizQFX1H5wkX8x3QCqfp7WTkRg==
SSL certificate
Expires in 27 days
- Status
- Expires in 27 daysThe certificate is trusted, but renew it before it expires to avoid browser warnings.
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt (YR1)
- Common name
- www.valvesoftware.com
- Protocol
- TLSv1.3
- Valid from
- August 12, 2026 at 10:05 PM UTC
- Valid to
- November 10, 2026 at 10:05 PM UTCExpires in 27 days
Covered hostnames
2 names- valvesoftware.com
- www.valvesoftware.com
Certificate chain
4 certificateswww.valvesoftware.com
Server certificate · Issued by Let's Encrypt (YR1) · Valid to 10 Nov 2026
Let's Encrypt (YR1)
Intermediate · Issued by ISRG (Root YR) · Valid to 02 Sept 2028
ISRG (Root YR)
Intermediate · Issued by Internet Security Research Group (ISRG Root X1) · Valid to 02 Sept 2032
Internet Security Research Group (ISRG Root X1)
Root · Valid to 04 Jun 2035
Serial number and fingerprints
- Serial number
- 050D08E755D666B3E3EFC2B75E08C3F7187A
- SHA-256
- 62:E0:EC:55:0D:48:20:02:71:E0:8C:CC:7C:3C:B3:1F:08:34:DF:49:E4:C3:42:C0:D6:4D:80:88:6C:39:89:A0
- SHA-1
- 60:A3:7F:99:F2:82:7A:75:A2:9A:8E:CF:69:55:10:D1:0F:0D:E5:8A
Domain registration
Registered 06 Oct 1996
Expires in 721 daysRegistration data for valvesoftware.com, from the registry's RDAP or WHOIS service.
- Registrar
- MarkMonitor Inc.IANA ID 292
- Registrant
- Valve CorporationUS
- Registered
- 06 Oct 199630 years old
- Expires
- 05 Oct 2028Expires in 721 days
- Last updated
- 05 Sept 2024
- DNSSEC
- Unsigned
- Abuse email
- abusecomplaints@markmonitor.com
- Abuse phone
- +1.2086851750
Status
Nameservers
6 nameservers- a1-164.akam.net
- a11-67.akam.net
- a24-64.akam.net
- a26-65.akam.net
- a8-66.akam.net
- a9-67.akam.net
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