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ask.com is a domain owned by InterActiveCorp, the company running the question and answer-based search engine Ask.com. The portal was founded in 1996 as 'Ask Jeeves', but was given its current name when the character Jeeves was phased out in 2005. After receiving immense pressure from Google.com on the search engine market, Ask.com outsourced their search engine development in 2010 to an undisclosed third party.


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Server Name:ASK.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
IP Address:66.226.72.11
Registrar:INSTRA CORPORATION PTY, LTD.
Whois Server:whois.instra.net
Referral URL:http://www.instra.com
Domain Name:ASK.COM
Registrar:MARKMONITOR INC.
Whois Server:whois.markmonitor.com
Referral URL:http://www.markmonitor.com
Name Server:NAME1.ASK.COM
Name Server:NAME2.ASK.COM
Name Server:NAME5.ASK.COM
Name Server:NAME6.ASK.COM
Status:clientDeleteProhibited
Status:clientTransferProhibited
Status:clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date:27-jul-2009
Creation Date:20-oct-1998
Expiration Date:
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Registrant:
DNS Manager
Ask.com
555 12th Street Suite 500
Oakland CA 94607
US
XXXXXXXXXX@askjeeves.com +1.5109857400 Fax: +1.5109857507

Domain Name:ask.com
Registrar Name:Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois:whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage:http://www.markmonitor.com

Administrative Contact:
DNS Manager
Ask.com
555 12th Street Suite 500
Oakland CA 94607
US
XXXXXXXXXX@askjeeves.com +1.5109857400 Fax: +1.5109857507
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
DNS Manager
Ask.com
555 12th Street Suite 500
Oakland CA 94607
US
XXXXXXXXXX@askjeeves.com +1.5109857400 Fax: +1.5109857507

Created on..............:1998-10-19.
Expires on..............: .
Record last updated on..: .
Domain servers in listed order:

name5.ask.com
name6.ask.com
name2.ask.com
name1.ask.com

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ask.com is a domain owned by InterActiveCorp, the company running the question and answer-based search engine Ask.com. The portal was founded in 1996 as 'Ask Jeeves', but was given its current name when the character Jeeves was phased out in 2005. After receiving immense pressure from Google.com on the search engine market, Ask.com outsourced their search engine development in 2010 to an undisclosed third party. Ask.com is a domain controlled by four domain name servers at ask.com themselves. Some of them are on the same IP network. Incoming mail for ask.com is handled by two mail servers at pphosted.com having a total of two IP numbers. There are two duplicated IP numbers. Both are on different IP networks. Ask.com has one IP number (66.235.120.127), but the reverse is trafrt.iad.ask.com.

Searchcollab.com cnames to this hostname. Askjeeves.com point to the same IP and also shares both name servers and mail servers. Askcity.com, askkids.com, askcache.com and justask.com point to the same IP and also shares name servers. Www.askcity.com, www.teoma.com, webt.ask.com, news.ask.com, br.ask.com and at least 14 other hosts point to the same IP. Ajkids.com, productopia.com, iacsearchandmedia.us, iacsearchandmedia.biz, iacsam.com and at least 31 other hosts share both name servers and mail servers with this domain. Kidsask.com, fieldhealth.com, geeves.com, jeevestours.com, ajforkids.com and at least 133 other hosts share name servers with this domain. Info-geek.com, dayoma.com, bizplenty.com, teyoma.com, qbyrd.com and at least 89 other hosts share name servers under another name with this domain. Writersnetwork.com, citygridmedia.com, insiderpages.com, cozyboots.com, thedailybeast.com and at least 53 other hosts share mail servers with this domain. Hatchlabs.com, shop-savvy.com, productopia.net, jeevessolutions.com, pageset.com and at least 49 other hosts share mail servers under another name with this domain. Apn.ask.com, int.ask.com, it.ask.com, fr.ask.com, ru.ask.com and at least 13 other hosts are subdomains to this domain. Mstr.ask.com, egspd42021.ask.com, media.ask.com, egspd42123.ask.com, m.ask.com and at least 96 other hosts are hosts under this domain. Ask.travel, ask.hn, ask.ma, ask.in, ask.sg and at least 138 other hosts are similar domain names.

You might also be interested in the competitors: lycos.co.uk, zing.vn, msn.com, askjeevesinc.com, teoma.com and google.co.uk. Also check www.ask.com.

Ask.com is ranked #33 world wide and is hosted on a server in Oakland, CA, United States. It has 52235 inlinks.

The name server name6.ask.com

All of the more than hundred domains that use the name server name6.ask.com use the four name servers name1, name2, name5 and name6.ask.com together, hereafter referred to as "name server group 1", (example: teoma.org, askgeeves.com and thesaurus.com ).

The mail server mxb-0015af01.gslb.pphosted.com

There are about sixty domains that use the mail server mxb-0015af01.gslb.pphosted.com.

The IP number 66.235.120.127

There are about thirty host names that point to the IP number 66.235.120.127.

The name server name1.ask.com

A third of the more than hundred domains that use the name server name1.ask.com point to the IP number 66.235.120.113 (example: askgeevs.com, ask3d.com and teoma.biz ).

The four name servers name1, name2, name5 and name6.ask.com together

There are more than hundred domains that use name server group 1.

The name server name2.ask.com

There are more than hundred domains that use the name server name2.ask.com.

The two mail servers mxa-0015af01 and mxb-0015af01.gslb.pphosted.com together

There are about sixty domains that use mail server group 1.

The name server name5.ask.com

Ten percent of the more than hundred domains that use the name server name5.ask.com point to the IP number 66.235.120.106 (example: triviatime.com, tracewire.com and spelling.com ).

The mail server mxa-0015af01.gslb.pphosted.com

There are about sixty domains that use the mail server mxa-0015af01.gslb.pphosted.com.