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Most widely used IP-addressesJohannes Beus
There are regularly discussions whether one domain on an IP-address can have negative repercussions for another domains on the same IP-address if it does not play by the rules. For a long time now, I am an advocate of the position that Google is unable to make the IP-address a negative factor in their algorithm because of the large number of shared-hosting-installations that host a large number of domains/hostnames on the same IP-address. Back in 2006 and 2007 I already looked at this and now that I once again have fresh data, I made a top-list with the most widely used IP-addresses, which I want to share:IP-addresses that host the most domains
Funnily, Google's Blogger.com is already on position two thanks to all the blogs that are hosted there, beaten only by T-Online. Next up are GoDaddy and then Strato's mass-servers. These are a great example, since Google can not simply punish each of the 55.000 domains on a server if only a few of those domains do not play by the rules. This is not to say that they will never do a manual examination of these IP-addresses – but even then, I believe that Google has better factors that they use.
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