Aug 21 2008
Have you ever thought about what exactly is an IP address? Sure you hear about it all of the time, but is it just come technical computer and internet thing? IP Address can actually say a lot of things about where it is coming from. In fact, there are tools online where you can find out the location of the user. IP2Location takes a user’s IP Address, and can gather information from it. It is a geolocation look up database where it can reverse translate IP addresses into location; be it the country, region, city, and even more detailed be the latitude and longitude, the postal code, time zone, net speed, ISP, domain name, area code or IDD code. There is a wealth of knowledge just from a few numbers. You may ask why this is useful, but in fact it can be quite. If you own a website, a forum, or a blog, you can find out who are visiting you and from where - just for general statistics. There are also a lot of other uses as well. Check out their website for more information at www.ip2location.com. You never know when it might come in handy, especially if you are an owner of a website.
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