Hosting check
Who hosts wordpress.org?
wordpress.org is hosted on WordPress.com in Ashburn, United States. DNS is self-hosted. Email is self-hosted.
Checked 14 Oct 2026 at 10:08 UTC
Server
66.6.42.252
Automattic, Inc · AS2635
🇺🇸Ashburn, United States
Checks
6 of 7 checks pass
Warnings are worth a look, but nothing is broken.
Hosting provider
High confidence
WordPress.com
PlatformA known platform or a plain hosting network answered, so the host is certain.
- Platform
Runs the site. The platform rents its servers from the network below.
- Network
Owns the IP address that answered our lookup.
How we know
1 signal- NetworkAS2635WordPress.com
IP & network
66.6.42.252 · Ashburn
- IP address
- 66.6.42.252
- Reverse DNS
- wordpress.org
- Network
- Automattic, IncAS2635 · hosting
- Route
- 66.6.42.0/24
- Location
- Ashburn, Virginia, United States
- Timezone
- America/New_York
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
- 39.0437,-77.4875
- Postal code
- 20147
- Country code
- US
DNS records
14 records in 7 types
- A
1 record
IPv4 addresses the name points to
- 66.6.42.252
- AAAA
1 record
IPv6 addresses the name points to
- 2620:109:b00a::4206:2afc
- NS
4 records
Nameservers that answer for the zone
- ns1.wordpress.org
- ns3.wordpress.org
- ns4.wordpress.org
- ns2.wordpress.org
- MX
2 records
Mail servers, lowest priority first
- 10 smtp1-dca.wordpress.org
- 10 smtp2-dca.wordpress.org
- CAA
2 records
Certificate authorities allowed to issue certificates
- 0 issue "letsencrypt.org;validationmethods=dns-01;accounturi=https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/acct/53691143"
- 0 iodef "mailto:caa@wordpress.org"
- SOA
1 record
Zone authority: primary nameserver, admin mailbox and timers
- ns1.wordpress.org hostmaster.wordpress.org 20123417 7200 7200 1209600 86400
- TXT
3 records
1 SPF policy, 2 ownership proofs
- v=spf1 ip4:66.6.42.0/24 ip4:66.155.40.0/24 include:helpscoutemail.com -all
- google-site-verification=t8FjG1vzC4OFZJ8qL4SkR8xxtLyKldXKbswyeemQS5w
- google-site-verification=UL0sGJ1dZbCT4J7pGrLW3hqM_I1LJ8pUi2WBEI_98kI
SSL certificate
- Status
- Valid certificateTrusted by browsers and covers wordpress.org. Expires in 69 days.
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt (YE2)
- Common name
- wordpress.org
- Protocol
- TLSv1.3
- Valid from
- September 23, 2026 at 07:43 PM UTC
- Valid to
- December 22, 2026 at 07:43 PM UTCExpires in 69 days
Covered hostnames
2 names- *.wordpress.org
- wordpress.org
Certificate chain
5 certificateswordpress.org
Server certificate · Issued by Let's Encrypt (YE2) · Valid to 22 Dec 2026
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
- 06524641DFFE956F2614756B87C5D8E77F48
- SHA-256
- 52:43:7C:30:04:59:2A:DF:0B:0F:40:5B:81:AB:CD:10:75:1A:FD:5D:BD:4F:CC:25:BD:30:19:C2:F7:56:3B:6A
- SHA-1
- 98:B5:9F:96:2F:64:8B:78:75:1C:D1:FA:AF:24:80:BF:D4:21:D3:27
Domain registration
Registered 28 Mar 2003
Expires in 3,086 daysRegistration data for wordpress.org, from the registry's RDAP or WHOIS service.
- Registrar
- MarkMonitor Inc.IANA ID 292
- Registrant
- DNStination, Inc.US
- Registered
- 28 Mar 200323 years, 6 months old
- Expires
- 28 Mar 2035Expires in 3,086 days
- Last updated
- 12 Aug 2026
- DNSSEC
- Unsigned
- Abuse email
- abusecomplaints@markmonitor.com
- Abuse phone
- +1.2083895740
Nameservers
4 nameservers- ns1.wordpress.org
- ns2.wordpress.org
- ns3.wordpress.org
- ns4.wordpress.org
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