Surf the internet using IP address | A geeky way

By Shekhar Sahu on 06 December 2009 2:01 PM

Recently Google launched its free public DNS. Domain Name System (DNS) is a technology which translates the web address or a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) into the numerical address that is the IP address (and vice versa) to find it over the internet.

When you type any URL into the address bar of web browser. Then the browser sends a request to the DNS server which translates the URL into IP address to find the server of that website you are looking.




I thought why not to perform something new and geeky. Following are the IP addresses of some popular websites, you can directly type them in the web browser instead of the URL :

 http://64.233.181.99/  Google.com
 http://66.132.218.75/  Batchmates.com
 http://69.147.76.15/  Yahoo.com
 http://208.80.152.2/  Wikipedia.org

To know the IP address of any website or a domain open command prompt in XP/Vista/Win 7/Windows10 or DOS in Windows 98/NT.

Go to Start > Run > type "cmd" which opens the command prompt
> now type

ping www.example.com

Copy the IP address and surf the geeky way.

Note friends, This was all for fun and educational purpose to show how browsers search the web pages.
I invite you to share your  and yours favorite sites with their ip address in this comment section. Let's see if you succeed in finding it's ip address!!

Shekhar Sahu

11 comments for this post

I was aware but kind of forgot this tip. Thanks for reminding.

Posted on December 6, 2009 at 9:45 PM  

i had many domains, will i get the same ip for all these domains

Posted on December 7, 2009 at 7:51 AM  

might be geeky, but not really convenient... what say?

btb congrats on your own domain

Posted on December 7, 2009 at 6:13 PM  

@telugu movie blog
Try them using the ping command in command prompt if you have a windows pc!
I think they will have a single ip address if all are sub domains.

Posted on December 8, 2009 at 11:01 PM  

@Basant & Shrinidhi
It was just for fun :)

Posted on December 8, 2009 at 11:03 PM  

One may not be convenient remembering 12 digit IP numbers :D

Posted on December 9, 2009 at 8:47 PM  

@Ramkumar, I agree it can newer be convenient. I meant to post was to share and tell about this stuff to learners and
Of course to have fun :)

Posted on December 9, 2009 at 9:22 PM  

I dont think this is wise idea to access websites.. remembering 12 characters for each website is not an easy.. I need to do that i will choose 143.143.143.143 for my blog. . :D

Posted on January 12, 2010 at 10:00 PM  

@Rajesh
Nobody needs to remember ip like 64.233.181.99 because we have web browsers, but still some guys remember them very well.
There are so many other uses of it you can read the next part of this blog.

Posted on January 13, 2010 at 8:40 AM  

One may not be convenient remembering 12 digit IP numbers :D

Posted on November 28, 2010 at 3:36 PM  

@Basant & Shrinidhi
It was just for fun :)

Posted on November 28, 2010 at 3:36 PM  

Post a Comment

A comment a day keeps the Doctor Away.

Top