Hosting check
Who hosts whatsapp.com?
whatsapp.com is hosted by Facebook, Inc. in Helsinki, Finland. DNS by whatsapp.net. Email by Proofpoint. Its HTTPS certificate expires in 7 days.
Checked 14 Oct 2026 at 12:40 UTC
Server
157.240.205.60
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
157.240.205.60 · Helsinki
- IP address
- 157.240.205.60
- Reverse DNS
- whatsapp-cdn-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
22 records in 7 types
- A
1 record
IPv4 addresses the name points to
- 157.240.205.60
- AAAA
1 record
IPv6 addresses the name points to
- 2a03:2880:f213:c3:face:b00c:0:167
- NS
4 records
Nameservers that answer for the zone
- d.ns.whatsapp.net
- b.ns.whatsapp.net
- c.ns.whatsapp.net
- a.ns.whatsapp.net
- MX
4 records
Mail servers, lowest priority first
- 20 mx0a-00082601.pphosted.com
- 10 mxa-00082601.gslb.pphosted.com
- 10 mxb-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.whatsapp.net dns.whatsapp.net 4207849484 14400 1800 604800 300
- TXT
10 records
1 SPF policy, 6 ownership proofs, 3 other
- google-site-verification=MXbDGih8wW-64G5maXGw8iIkFbH7iv_vLobZd-kxdNo
- Ghm7XCdpYQEendZNsepA80OBAhbN9sfITvUxiy9FNdOGBxeAQICCmLbuXm23hNaysns+wZ6GskJWMtWD1/Ha9Q==
- v=spf1 include:_spf.fb.com include:facebookmail.com -all
- b42e0aa4-9d21-4a73-a111-fba236f1a835
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
- *.whatsapp.net
- 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
7 names- *.whatsapp.net
- *.cdn.whatsapp.net
- *.snr.whatsapp.net
- *.whatsapp.com
- wa.me
- whatsapp.com
- whatsapp.net
Certificate chain
3 certificatesMeta Platforms, Inc. (*.whatsapp.net)
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
- 03E14C36C2FEB3C16FCC3642ADC7F6C7
- SHA-256
- 7D:94:B9:21:46:2D:1F:66:25:DF:7D:67:11:2D:80:DA:A7:BC:6C:17:DA:86:8B:08:45:5F:81:1A:A7:12:29:B1
- SHA-1
- A0:13:A7:13:ED:71:AB:F7:53:8D:D3:D0:98:CC:16:9A:0B:B5:45:F0
Domain registration
Registered 04 Sept 2008
Expires in 2,881 daysRegistration data for whatsapp.com, from the registry's RDAP or WHOIS service.
- Registrar
- RegistrarSafe, LLCIANA ID 3237
- Registered
- 04 Sept 200818 years, 1 month old
- Expires
- 04 Sept 2034Expires in 2,881 days
- Last updated
- 24 Sept 2025
- DNSSEC
- Unsigned
- Abuse email
- abusecomplaints@registrarsafe.com
- Abuse phone
- +1-650-308-7004
Status
Nameservers
4 nameservers- a.ns.whatsapp.net
- b.ns.whatsapp.net
- c.ns.whatsapp.net
- d.ns.whatsapp.net
Source:rdap.verisign.com
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