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I have received several emails asking me how how to find the Internet Protocol (IP) address of a website. Since I believe that the readers of this post are likely looking to learn how to find the IP address of a website will be windows users I will describe that process. There are two common ways of doing this.

First way:

1. Click on Start -> Run
2. Type “cmd” or “command”
Type “nslookup spamsuite.com”

The results are:
C:\>nslookup spamsuite.com
Server: ns1.nameserver.com
Address: 192.168.1.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: spamsuite.com
Address: 66.211.39.18

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3. spamsuite.com has the IP address of 66.211.39.18

Second way:
Use a site such as dnstools, emailstuff, Dnsstuff, or others.

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  2. Michele MonsterID Icon Michele (3 comments.)
    5:31 pm on August 5th, 2008

    Great post!

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