Most websites are hosted on a shared IP address. What this means is that your website and several others share the same space on a server, and it’s likely that those sites are experiencing brute force attacks already. When a new site is created on a shared IP address, the brute force bots can immediately detect it and start attacking. When a new domain is created, it is logged in the WHOIS database, which is accessible to the public. Hackers often will crawl this database for new targets.