Every server has an IP address and using specialist websites, a list of domains which point to that IP address can be returned. Several websites do this, and many charge for the service.

If one types in a domain or IP address on myIPneighbors.com, the site lists other domains that point to that IP. It can be a little unreliable, though, no doubt due to the site’s heavy load.

I have already mentioned that this site does have practical uses. It’s interesting to see how packed your host’s server is, so you can see how good a deal you are getting, and what they are hosting. This could be useful as it’s something hosts rarely reveal but is very important to company’s reputations.

It could also make an interesting tool for doing investigations. Using it, you can see what projects companies are launching if they’re silly enough to put the domain on the same server.

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You might be wondering why someone would want to use a different domain name to search the Internet. As we all know search terms are added to the url of the result page which means that anyone who has access to that data can analyze it and see what you have been searching for.

We have for instance heard of Internet Service Providers who sell this data to companies for marketing purposes. AOL released search results in the past to the public for instance which turned out to be a major privacy invasion for several of its users because it was possible to find out the real name by analyzing the search terms.

The alternate websites do add those search terms as well but it is unlikely that they will be monitored as well. If you want to be on the safe side you could use a proxy server instead and point it to Google.com

Here is the list of alternate official Google.com urls:

• http://msm.byu.edu/
• http://138008.org.ru/
• http://americanlandmarkfence.com/
• http://intranet.falmouth.ac.uk/
• http://leslein.com/
• http://netease.google.com/
• http://taakra.com/
• http://fd2k.dyndns.org/
• http://aim.playlinc.com/
• http://0038.za.net
• http://cpl.playlinc.com
• http://gamedaily.playlinc.com/
• http://go.ogle.org/
• http://googleffffffff8f01a7ed.sbi2testsite1.com/
• http://lunaticus.dnip.net/
• http://verizon.playlinc.com
• http://yvonneschroeder.com
• http://zapchu.ppntop50.com/

Here are Google Groups Alternative urls:

• http://groups.secureearn.com/
• http://groups.lanostrafamiglia.org/
• groups.dz18.com

You might be wondering how you can check that these urls are indeed hosted on a Google server. I used a tool called Reverse IP DNS Domain Check Tool from Seo logs for it. Just enter an url or IP and the tool displays all other domains that are hosted on the same server.

Inspiration taken from Digital Inspiration

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