I need to find out which web company hosts www.cycletunes.ws -- I am
taking over the graphics on the site and already have the ftp info and
passwords I need. Nowhere on their site or ANYTHING gives me a hint on
hosting info.

The company I am building the site for doesn't have a clue about
computers. And when I asked who hosted their site, they just shrugged
their shoulders. All they know is that they are paying $29.99 a month
for web hosting that includes an e-commerce package and they know "for
a fact" that O.E.M. (whatever that stands for) could possibly be their
hoster. I have searched EVERYWHERE to find out who OEM is and have
found nothing. I just need to know who the site is hosted with. I have
done a whois search at register.com and godaddy.com and neither of
them tell where it is hosted.

Hi psychofairy!

When I need to know who is hosting a website, the first thing I do is
feed the URL to NeoTrace, a traceroute utility I purchased some years
back from Neoworx Software.  NeoTrace shows, on a map, how many hops
from my computer to that host is, and reveals the Registrant and
Network information at the end of the trace.

This is the information that NeoTrace provided for me:

Hop  IP Address       Name                   Network
#9   216.71.202.233   www.cycletunes.ws      OLM,LLC

Network Information

OLM,LLC (NETBLK-OLM-03)
3080 Ogden Ave
Milford, CT 06460
US

Netname: OLM-03
Netblock: 216.71.0.0 - 216.71.223.255
Maintainer: OLM

Coordinator:
Administrator, Dns  (DA16-ARIN)  dns@AXXS.NET
630-357-8538 (FAX) 630-357-8545

Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

NS.HOST4U.NET  207.58.117.9
NS2.HOST4U.NET  209.150.128.15


...and there you have it.  The page is hosted by OLM.net:

OLM.net - Web Hosting Solutions @ Your Service
http://pre.olm.net/index.htm

You can contact OLM here:

800-741-6813
203-445-7700
sales@olm.net


I hope this helps!  If I can be of further assistance, don't hesitate
to ask!

--Missy

I have never received such a professional and timely response to
something that has bothering me for hours! This was unbelievably
perfect!

Nice work!

Hi psychofairy

You can obtain similar information online, without needing the
NeoTrace utility that missy uses from a number of 'whois' sites, but
the prettiest (in that it presents you with a graphical map of the
world showing you where your connection really goes) is probably
VisualRoute's 'live demo' of their product which can be accessed
online at http://www.visualware.com/visualroute/livedemo.html

Once the trace is complete you can click on the 'OLM' name in the
right-most column to get the same whois data that you've got in the
answer to your question. So if you ever lose a client's system again
you now know how to find it!

Regards
iaint-ga

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!!! You two have been
SOOOOO helpful! Thank you for responding so quickly and so
professionally. I was kind of expecting a 12 year old on the other
line to say - "Nope. Can't find it." You have no idea how happy you
have just made me just from that info.... I know where I'm going next
time I gotta question..... this place is too awesome!

You don't need to use the NeoTrace utility, as the ping tool that
comes with all Windows version can be used to determine the IP address
of any domain name.  Simply open the command prompt console and type
in ping www.cycletunes.ws and it will give you the IP address of the
server.  With that information, you can search a Reverse IP lookup
service online to see who registered the domain.