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I always kind of wished this wasn't possible. Has it always been possible? Meaning sites like http://ip-to-country.webhostin... that track this stuff, how do they know some new isp has this block of ip addresses and is from country X? Was this possible in say 1997?

For ex. if a brand new small local isp springs up is there ever a window where their block of ip addresses is not yet geo-located yet?

Your local audience may leave the area (either on holiday or to live) but still want to talk to people back home. This means that blanket IP Range blocking is out of the question.
What I suggest is restrict viewing the website to people who are logged in. A default splash page for those not logged in could be shown that's minimal in graphics and text, containing just the log-in form and a 'register here'.

To stop unwanted people registering a new account, you could to a blanket IP ban on the registration page ONLY, meaning that a local person can register at home, and then roam to wherever and still access the site.

someone mentioned earlier this library for blocking a range of IP's by country and this PHP class that can do it too.
Just use them on the registration page and set up a redirect for those who are not logged in (regardless of location) and you should have a nice walled in forum.

While it does involve having thousands of addresses, this kind of thing is pretty easy to automate, given what your goals are. For example, I use this tool to determine which country my visitors are in and display the relevant contact information (show the French address to people in France, the Belgian one to people in Belgium, etc). I have a cron job set up to update the database once a week; it is fully automatic and very reliable.

If you need to be more specific, this guy has a php class that can supposedly give you information as specific as city, or you can write your own using the db you can download here, although I can't personally vouch for either. You could also parse the hostnames in your server and only allow service providers in your area.

Also, google code has a really good tutorial for a client side application if your server is limited in its capabilities.

Either way, it sounds from the summary like you have access to a database of ip address ranges you want to allow. Just set up a cron job to download it and parse it.

They appear to be back in Sweden: see the whois.

Ack, forgot the closing quotation marks again.

http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/

yup yup yup. I currently use keywords for google, google images, traceroute, whois, ebay, wiki, xe.net, php.net, mysql.com (though their website is mostly useless (in comparision with the brilliantly useful php.net)), amazon, archive.org, a file extension search page, and ip2country. yay for bookmarks! your suggestions welcome.

FYI:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=%25s
http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=%25s&Su bmit3=Go!
http://whois.webhosting.info/%25s
http://web.archive.org/archive_request_ng?collecti on=web&url=%25s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search =%25s
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=%25s&From =USD&To=GBP
http://www.ezwhois.net/index.php
http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?satitle =%25s&ht=1&sokeywordredirect=&from=R8&fkr=1&soloct og=9
http://www.php.net/search.php
http://www.mysql.com/search/?q=%25s&charset=
http://puremango.co.uk/ip2country.php?ip=%25s
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle- form/026-9212734-6757257

If anything, I'm surprised that more regitstrars aren't being hit by this. Maybe they agreed to pay up instead.

Look at this excellent web hosting statistics site:
http://www.webhosting.info/

Check out the domain trend for the webhosting outfit you're thinking of using.

Check it's trending up!

Importantly, on the gain/loss analysis pages, check that your hosting outfit is both a) gaining domains, and b) not losing too many domains!

I went on the site of the mentionned company and it features a flash movie stating it's an IM that connects you with other buddies geographically near you (like 0.25 mile) and with the same interests...

If this was true, I think it could be very interesting: sometimes nice events happen in my neighborhood and I just miss them because I didn't know there was something happening... or those who don't know their neighbors? (disclosure: I know my neighbors!)

An app allowing you to discover the life in your community (neighbohood) while letting you to remain anonymous (if wanted) would be a hit. You could subscribe to local RSS feeds about social/cultural events, for example or find the association you were looking for.

To be used, such IM app would need to function with minimal self-disclosure... with IPs? I know there are free databases to segment IP per countries but, what about IP per cities/neighborhoods? Does anyone know something about that?

The net performs great to access stuff by subject but performs poorly to find things near me.

Smart business move? Yes. Consequence free actions are generally good ones. Until a slap on the wrist becomes substantial, they can do whatever they want.
Depends on the outcome of the lawsuit. While government-initiated antitrust cases tend to be settled for symbolic fines (remember Microsoft?), damages in lawsuits between companies are sometimes pretty high. When googling for an example, I found some old news about the settlement between Sun and Microsoft:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1560909,00.as p
Quote:
The settlement, which stems from a lawsuit Sun filed in 2002, will include Microsoft continuing to support Sun's Java Virtual Machine, as well as Microsoft paying $700 million to Sun to resolve pending antitrust issues and $900 million more to resolve patent issues.
700 million on the antitrust part of this settlement. Won't kill a company like Intel but it is not exactly cheap.
Another one is
http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/ibm-wins-$850m-s ettlement-from-microsoft_0701058182.htm
where Microsoft pays $775m plus some free software to IBM.

• Fastest Gaining Registrars: GoDaddy (+278,692 domains in the last 4 weeks), with eNom in a distant 2nd place (at +73,744/month)
• Fastest Losing Registrars: Network Solutions (-14,382), followed closely by that other ripoff registrar, Register.com (-10,293)
• Does anyone really think the "NetSol" brand counts for that much of premium? Register.com certainly never did, but they didn't count on the people they were marketing to getting a cluestick.

• Fastest Gaining Registrars: GoDaddy (+278,692 domains in the last 4 weeks), with eNom in a distant 2nd place (at +73,744/month)
• Fastest Losing Registrars: Network Solutions (-14,382), followed closely by that other ripoff registrar, Register.com (-10,293)
• Does anyone really think the "NetSol" brand counts for that much of premium? Register.com certainly never did, but they didn't count on the people they were marketing to getting a cluestick.

Well then, I'm surprised that I haven't received a phish from slashdot.org, but I guess Richard Craig doesn't do that. (Not that I ever remember my password. Lost my first account that way.)

Checking the IP that panix.net is on shows only panix.com. Does this mean that the thief is merely mirroring panix.net to give the impression of a return to normality?

Checking the IP that panix.com is on shows several thousand domains, and all seem to have odd names.

That Las Vegas address used for panix.com is also similar to some used by spammers registering domains, and using a Nevada address in the whois.

Maybe a check of some of the blocklists will show the panix.com IP listed already. 142.46.200.72

You could try this link and see if the server is still up. (hint, slashdot effect)

As far as I understand it, the idea that there is a shortage of IPv4 addresses is really a myth. I read a paper that someone wrote that came to the conclusion that even with the current growth rate (exponential) that we would not run out of addresses for another 20 years or so.

I think the real problem is that these days the RIRs (such as ARIN and APNIC) require justification before allocating netblocks. That means you have to show either current usage need or plans for future expansion, or both. You can't just say, "I'd like a /16 please" and expect to get it it. So really I think the non-US countries like to say "netspace is limited" but what they really mean is "sure we can get all the netblocks we want but it requires some paperwork and justification and we're just bitter that old companies back in the 80s were handed out whole /8s for the asking."

By the way, here is the data I have that shows total number of IP addresses for all netblocks allocated to each country (top 10):

US 1,828,328,425
JP 117,486,311
GB 84,658,624
DE 69,438,200
AU 65,918,741
CA 64,257,591
CN 54,172,684
FR 45,387,299
NL 35,056,078
KR 34,084,629

The source for these numbers was the aggregated data from http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/

The fastest growing registrar happens to be GoDaddy.com, where I moved all my domains to several years ago.

You have to keep watching that bang/buck ratio in registrars, webhosting - in all things. You stay with one provider of anything too long and chances are you'll end up paying higher static prices for the convenience of not looking around at the competition once in a while...

The fastest growing registrar happens to be GoDaddy.com, where I moved all my domains to several years ago.

You have to keep watching that bang/buck ratio in registrars, webhosting - in all things. You stay with one provider of anything too long and chances are you'll end up paying higher static prices for the convenience of not looking around at the competition once in a while...

The url you want to hit to DDOS this is:
http://www.xcelent.biz/d/

It's heavy in images.

There used to be a Firefox extension that you could use to refresh a page every N minutes, anyone know what that was?

If enough people set this to refresh every 1 minute, and left if open all day, this server would just cease to exist.

Since this same machine is FULL of spam and malicious sites:
http://whois.webhosting.info/61.218.79.53

This seems like a good idea...

There is a slew of sites on that same server according to Webhosting Info that are infected, some with windows-update.exe and others with windows-update32.exe

Look here.