How to find a website’s IP address ?

How to find a website’s IP address

Sometimes, you may not want to track a person spamming or bothering you but instead you need to find a specific website’s IP address.

Finding a website’s IP address isn’t complicated at all and can be done both on Mac and Windows by using your computer’s built-in traceroute function.

Windows

To start, open the Start menu and type ‘command prompt’. Then, open the Command Prompt, enter ‘tracert’, press space, and type in your website’s address without the ‘www’. For example, to find Google’s IP address, you would type ‘tracert google.com’ into the Command Prompt.

The IP address will appear in brackets next to the ‘Tracing route to [website]’ line of text.

Pro tip: Make sure that you type in the correct extension for the website (.com, .org, .net, and so on). And don’t forget to press Enter in order to execute the command.

Mac

Mac users will first need to open Spotlight. To do this, click on the magnifying glass icon in the top-right corner of the screen. Next, open Network Utility by double-clicking on it.

From here, follow the next steps:

• Click on the Traceroute tab at the top of the Network Utility window.
• Enter the website’s address in the text box near the top of the window. For instance, finding Facebook’s IP address would include typing in ‘facebook.com’ in the text box. Again, no need for typing ‘https://’ or ‘www’.
• Click on Trace – a blue button on the right side of the page.

The website’s IP address will show next to the ‘traceroute to [website]’ line of text.

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