Hosting check
Who hosts wikipedia.org?
wikipedia.org is hosted by Wikimedia Foundation Inc. in Amsterdam, Netherlands. DNS by wikimedia.org. Email by wikimedia.org.
Checked 14 Oct 2026 at 10:28 UTC
- Domain
wikipedia.org
- DNS
wikimedia.org
- Email
- Network
Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
- Server185.15.59.224
Server
185.15.59.224
Wikimedia Foundation Inc. · AS14907
🇳🇱Amsterdam, Netherlands
Checks
6 of 7 checks pass
Warnings are worth a look, but nothing is broken.
Hosting provider
High confidence
Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
Business networkAS14907. A known platform or a plain hosting network answered, so the host is certain.
- Network
Owns the IP address that answered our lookup.
How we know
1 signal- NetworkAS14907Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
IP & network
185.15.59.224 · Amsterdam
- IP address
- 185.15.59.224
- Reverse DNS
- text-lb.esams.wikimedia.org
- Network
- Wikimedia Foundation Inc.AS14907 · business
- Route
- 185.15.59.0/24
- Location
- Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
- Timezone
- Europe/Amsterdam
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
- 52.3740,4.8897
- Postal code
- 1012
- Country code
- NL
DNS records
14 records in 7 types
- A
1 record
IPv4 addresses the name points to
- 185.15.59.224
- AAAA
1 record
IPv6 addresses the name points to
- 2a02:ec80:300:ed1a::1
- NS
3 records
Nameservers that answer for the zone
- ns0.wikimedia.org
- ns1.wikimedia.org
- ns2.wikimedia.org
- MX
2 records
Mail servers, lowest priority first
- 10 mx-in1001.wikimedia.org
- 10 mx-in2001.wikimedia.org
- CAA
3 records
Certificate authorities allowed to issue certificates
- 0 iodef "mailto:dns-admin@wikimedia.org"
- 0 issue "letsencrypt.org"
- 0 issue "pki.goog"
- SOA
1 record
Zone authority: primary nameserver, admin mailbox and timers
- ns0.wikimedia.org hostmaster.wikimedia.org 2026060420 43200 7200 1209600 3600
- TXT
3 records
1 SPF policy, 2 ownership proofs
- yandex-verification: 35c08d23099dc863
- v=spf1 include:_cidrs.wikimedia.org ~all
- google-site-verification=AMHkgs-4ViEvIJf5znZle-BSE2EPNFqM1nDJGRyn2qk
SSL certificate
- Status
- Valid certificateTrusted by browsers and covers wikipedia.org. Expires in 80 days.
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt (YE2)
- Common name
- *.wikipedia.org
- Protocol
- TLSv1.3
- Valid from
- October 4, 2026 at 06:34 PM UTC
- Valid to
- January 2, 2027 at 06:34 PM UTCExpires in 80 days
Covered hostnames
41 names- *.m.mediawiki.org
- *.m.wikibooks.org
- *.m.wikidata.org
- *.m.wikimedia.org
- *.m.wikinews.org
- *.m.wikipedia.org
- *.m.wikiquote.org
- *.m.wikisource.org
- *.m.wikiversity.org
- *.m.wikivoyage.org
- *.m.wiktionary.org
- *.mediawiki.org
Show 29 more hostnames
- *.planet.wikimedia.org
- *.wikibooks.org
- *.wikidata.org
- *.wikifunctions.org
- *.wikimedia.org
- *.wikimediafoundation.org
- *.wikinews.org
- *.wikipedia.org
- *.wikiquote.org
- *.wikisource.org
- *.wikiversity.org
- *.wikivoyage.org
- *.wiktionary.org
- *.wmfusercontent.org
- mediawiki.org
- w.wiki
- wikibooks.org
- wikidata.org
- wikifunctions.org
- wikimedia.org
- wikimediafoundation.org
- wikinews.org
- wikipedia.org
- wikiquote.org
- wikisource.org
- wikiversity.org
- wikivoyage.org
- wiktionary.org
- wmfusercontent.org
Certificate chain
5 certificates*.wikipedia.org
Server certificate · Issued by Let's Encrypt (YE2) · Valid to 02 Jan 2027
Let's Encrypt (YE2)
Intermediate · Issued by ISRG (Root YE) · Valid to 02 Sept 2028
ISRG (Root YE)
Intermediate · Issued by Internet Security Research Group (ISRG Root X2) · Valid to 02 Sept 2032
Internet Security Research Group (ISRG Root X2)
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
- 06DB158652F329309A86E7D0E9DDFED9A4B2
- SHA-256
- 14:A7:AC:CB:60:F4:9B:A0:BE:DC:09:86:C9:97:50:B3:7D:25:F0:15:13:12:EB:9D:8F:1A:8A:3F:87:48:42:6F
- SHA-1
- AD:9C:4B:CB:D4:80:2B:07:3B:02:8E:B4:06:7F:04:1B:88:47:E3:8E
Domain registration
Registered 13 Jan 2001
Expires in 90 daysRegistration data for wikipedia.org, from the registry's RDAP or WHOIS service.
- Registrar
- MarkMonitor Inc.IANA ID 292
- Registrant
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.US
- Registered
- 13 Jan 200125 years, 9 months old
- Expires
- 13 Jan 2027Expires in 90 days
- Last updated
- 12 Aug 2026
- DNSSEC
- Unsigned
- Abuse email
- abusecomplaints@markmonitor.com
- Abuse phone
- +1.2083895740
Nameservers
3 nameservers- ns0.wikimedia.org
- ns1.wikimedia.org
- ns2.wikimedia.org
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