Dave, If you do a "whois" search on ARIN.net, you'll usually get a contact number for the ISP, admittedly here in the UK, where most are using BT, Freeserve or AOL, it's probably going to narrow it down to london, manchester, or one of the other major cities, but in the US (and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong!) I believe that the major ISPs have phone numbers for every major municipality so narrowing down to a city is possible in some areas...
/me dives for cover after getting his facts wrong... Matt >-----Original Message----- >From: David Precious [mailto:davidp@;firstline-design.co.uk] >Sent: 29 October 2002 16:20 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: Determining user location > > > >I don't see how you can narrow down someone's location to the city >they're in by their IP address. Country maybe, but not city. > >David P > > >On Tuesday 29 October 2002 3:57 pm, Casey Crookston wrote: >> Denise, >> >> I'm no expert on how the internet backbone works in general, but >> narowing down what city you live in based on your IP address is >> fairly standard technology. >> >> It's not 100% fool proof, but it can come close most of the time. >> >> Casey >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Denise Schmidt [mailto:denise.schmidt@;cox.net] >> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 7:31 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [wdvltalk] Determining user location >> >> >> I was looking through some information sent out in the last weekly >> WDVL Newsletter. I followed one of the links (unfortunately I can't >> remember which one), and it was clear at this site that they were >> able to determine the city where I'm located. I followed the trail >> to http://www.geobytes.com. (demo at >> http://www.geobytes.com/demo.htm). >> >> The product isn't free, but I know someone had a question about this >> recently, and thought this might be worth looking into. >> >> Denise > > > >____ * The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM * ____ >To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:wdvltalk-join@;lists.wdvl.com Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:wdvltalk-join@;lists.wdvl.com Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
