Whois & Analysis for minecraftservers.org

A Minecraft server is a player-owned or business-owned multiplayer game server for the 2009 Mojang Studios video game Minecraft.

In this context, the term "server" often colloquially refers to a network of connected servers, rather than a single machine.

Players can start their own server either by setting one up on a computer using software provided by Mojang, or by using a hosting provider so they can have their server run on dedicated machines with guaranteed uptime.

The largest and most popular server is widely accepted to be the well-known minigame server Hypixel.

A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g. World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, DayZ).

Multiplayer games usually require players to share a single game system or use networking technology to play together over a greater distance; players may compete against one or more human contestants, work cooperatively with a human partner to achieve a common goal, or supervise other players' activity.

Due to multiplayer games allowing players to interact with other individuals, they provide an element of social communication absent from single-player games.