Shodan Application

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

Description

Shodan is an IoT search engine. IT has servers located around the world that crawl the Internet 24/7 to provide the latest Internet intelligence.

Category	Cybersecurity
Web Link	Shodan - Home Page

Application Domains

The application domains data shown here is available in our Netify Data Feeds solution. The data is accessible via our IP API as well as downloadable datasets.

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Shodan - Domains

shodan.io is the primary domain associated with Shodan.

Other Networks

There are tens of thousands of Internet network providers and we make an effort to track as many as we can, but we have less coverage for niche and local providers. The following is a sample of Shodan IP addresses on this type of network.

ASN Description	ASN	Route	Location	IP
CariNet	AS10439	66.240.192.0/18	United States	66.240.192.138
CariNet	AS10439	66.240.192.0/18	United States	66.240.205.34
CariNet	AS10439	66.240.192.0/18	United States	66.240.219.146
CariNet	AS10439	66.240.192.0/18	United States	66.240.219.173
CariNet	AS10439	66.240.192.0/18	United States	66.240.236.119
and 23 more

Hosting

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

Cloud Hosts	# of IPs
DigitalOcean	7
M247	1
Cogent	9

Host	PoP	Location	IPs
M247	Core	Romania	1 IP
Cogent	Core	Netherlands	6 IPs
Cogent	Core	United States	2 IPs
Cogent	Core	Austria	1 IP
DigitalOcean	San Francisco	United States	3 IPs
DigitalOcean	Clifton	United States	1 IP
DigitalOcean	San Francisco	United States	3 IPs

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.

Take special note of CDNs that use Anycast technology. Anycast makes it possible to route a single IP address to a variety of different geographic locations. In other words, one global Anycast IP is hosted in multiple geographic locations.