Well it doesn't just apply to AOL.
You could have visitors from all over europe using an IP belonging to an
american ISP.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Moretti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 05 May 2004 16:10
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] OT: IP addresses by country
> 
> 
> Snake Hollywood wrote:
> 
> > reverse DNS lookup will give you that info, but it's generally quite
> > useless.
> > For example.
> > You get an AOL user in the UK, but the IP address belongs 
> to AOL USA.
> > Which will be the case with a lot of ISP's, especially 
> small ones, the 
> > IP will often belong to a parent company, a carrier, or another ISP 
> > altogether, and may not have any relation to the country 
> the visitor 
> > is from.
> >  
> 
> Check out the geoip data from maxmind - for $50 +$14 an update their 
> data will tell you which AOL IP addresses are UK, US or 
> otherwise, but 
> like I said before who really cares where the AOL users are, 
> as long as 
> they are no where near me!? ;)
> 
> 
> 
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