security / dns & domain / hosting provider
DNS & domain

Hosting provider

Identifies which organisation owns the IP address your domain resolves to, using public internet registry data.

Severity if missing
Low
Category
DNS & domain
Standard
RDAP

What it is

Every IP address on the internet is allocated to an organisation — a hosting company, a cloud provider, an ISP. That ownership is recorded in public registries maintained by the regional internet authorities.

Pentrawl looks up your server's IP address in those registries via RDAP (the modern successor to WHOIS) to identify who hosts your site.

Why it matters

Knowing your hosting provider is useful context: it confirms where your site actually lives, helps you know who to contact about infrastructure, and can reveal if a domain is hosted somewhere unexpected. It's informational rather than a security control.

The risk
This is context, not a vulnerability. It helps you understand and verify where your domain is hosted.

How Pentrawl checks it

Pentrawl takes the IP address from your A record and queries public RDAP registries to find the organisation that owns it. The lookup is best-effort — if a registry doesn't respond, the scan simply continues without it.

How to fix it

There is nothing to fix here — this check is purely informational. If the provider shown is unexpected, verify that your DNS points where you intend.

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