Microsoft Advertising Application

Application Information

The following page provides details on domains, networks, IPs, hosting services, and content delivery networks used by Microsoft Advertising.

Description

Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads, Microsoft adCenter and MSN adCenter) is a service that provides pay-per-click advertising on the Bing, Yahoo!, and DuckDuckGo search engines.

Category	Advertiser
Web Link	Microsoft Advertising - Home Page

Network Intelligence

The network data shown here is also available via the Netify Data Feed API. We provide network intelligence to help deliver better digital experiences to end users and businesses.

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Domains

Primary Domains

Primary Domains are owned and managed by the application vendor.

Platform Domains are often provided by hosting providers, content delivery networks, SaaS platforms and other third parties. It is important to identify these domains for DNS filters and hostname blocklists.

Platform Domains

Adobe Ads	{hidden}.microsoft.com.ssl.sc.omtrdc.net
Azure Front Door	{hidden}.azurefd.net
Microsoft Azure	clarity-ingest-eus-c-sc.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com	and 20 more

SaaS - Software-as-a-Service

Applications often use various third party platforms for providing authentication, advertising, cybersecurity, e-mail services and more. The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms used by Microsoft Advertising are summarized below.

SaaS	# of IPs
Adobe Ads	46

Service	Category	Sample IP	IP Count
Adobe Ads	Advertiser	63.140.36.51	46 IPs

Hosting

Cloud hosting vendors like AWS and Microsoft Azure provide cloud-based computing and network resources to deliver applications. The hosting platforms used by Microsoft Advertising are summarized below by geographical points-of-presence (PoP). Each PoP can host many IPs to deliver an application.

Cloud Hosts	# of IPs
Microsoft Azure	65

Host	PoP	Location	Sample IP	IPs
Microsoft Azure	Richmond	United States	4.153.72.49	20 IPs
Microsoft Azure	Singapore	Singapore	20.212.119.95	2 IPs
Microsoft Azure	Richmond	United States	4.227.249.197	17 IPs
Microsoft Azure	Dublin	Ireland	13.74.129.1	2 IPs
Microsoft Azure	Des Moines	United States	52.182.214.99	5 IPs
Microsoft Azure	Amsterdam	Netherlands	20.16.92.66	2 IPs
Microsoft Azure	San Francisco	United States	20.59.118.181	8 IPs
Microsoft Azure	Melbourne	Australia	20.70.121.220	1 IP
Microsoft Azure	Tokyo	Japan	20.89.88.168	1 IP
Microsoft Azure	Gaevle	Sweden	20.91.196.254	1 IP
Microsoft Azure	San Francisco	United States	20.125.62.241	1 IP
Microsoft Azure	Chicago	United States	20.241.35.116	3 IPs
Microsoft Azure	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	20.205.115.81	1 IP
Microsoft Azure	Busan	South Korea	52.231.230.148	1 IP

Content Delivery Networks - CDNs

In order to get information to end users more quickly, many applications are distributed from multiple geographical points-of-presence (PoPs) using Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). Each PoP can host many IPs to deliver an application. A sample IP is provided.