This is sort of creepy...
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Who else did that for stackoverflow.com immediately after Code Project?
They are not located in a lake. They used to show in the centroid of an area which happened to be a hapless person who did not even have an internet connection. Nonetheless, angry people would show up at his/her house threatening them since the website that stole their credit card was shown to reside at his/her house. The location service was forced to pin unknown locations to bodies to save the innocent people from harassment.
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It's all public - there are a number of people who provide it, if the domain is ranked high enough: internet site traffic statistics - Google Search[^] (My domain just gets host location and so forth, which surprises me not at all :laugh: )
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The biggest surprise when I put mine in was that sometime in the last few years my hosting company apparently switched from LightSpeed HTTPD to Apache. Doesn't affect anything I do, on the web end I've never used it as more than a file share; the account primarily exists to let me run a bouncer for my IRC connection with bottom tier shared hosting as a dirt cheap addon. If I were to do anything serious with it I'd switch to .net hosting of some sort; but I don't think I've even got a line of javascript on it currently never mind php or whatever penguin stack the hosting company installed in its default deploy.
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Append ".ipaddress.com" to any domain name, and depending on the site, you get a bunch of information. Mainly useless information that you can't get anywhere else, but there's something creepy about adding ".ipaddress.com" to any domain name. For example: codeproject.com.ipaddress.com[^] :~
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Basically, appending "abc.com" to any domain name causes the DNS to resolve "abc.com" first, and the rest becomes a subdomain - which the IPaddress domain uses to ID the domain you want to know about. That's no more creepy than appending my landline number to your mobile number: the telephone system would ring my number and I'd pick up your mobile from the remaining tones (assuming I answered in time). Handy, if you want the public info on a site : the visitor percentages by country are interesting!
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Especially that CodeProject is apparently being served from the middle of a lake!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Especially that CodeProject is apparently being served from the middle of a lake!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Forogar wrote:
Especially that CodeProject is apparently being served from the middle of a lake!
As is ravib.com. :) /ravi
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They are not located in a lake. They used to show in the centroid of an area which happened to be a hapless person who did not even have an internet connection. Nonetheless, angry people would show up at his/her house threatening them since the website that stole their credit card was shown to reside at his/her house. The location service was forced to pin unknown locations to bodies to save the innocent people from harassment.
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Append ".ipaddress.com" to any domain name, and depending on the site, you get a bunch of information. Mainly useless information that you can't get anywhere else, but there's something creepy about adding ".ipaddress.com" to any domain name. For example: codeproject.com.ipaddress.com[^] :~
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adudley256 wrote:
Genius.
Rather, a guy who doesn't necessarily know all the ins and outs of web addresses. Manners.
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delete this;Yes I agree, but isn't it interesting how the perception of things changes when you don't fully understand how it works... I wonder how many things I don't know how they work and do similar.
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Append ".ipaddress.com" to any domain name, and depending on the site, you get a bunch of information. Mainly useless information that you can't get anywhere else, but there's something creepy about adding ".ipaddress.com" to any domain name. For example: codeproject.com.ipaddress.com[^] :~
Latest Article - A 4-Stack rPI Cluster with WiFi-Ethernet Bridging Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
How interesting! Good find.
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Append ".ipaddress.com" to any domain name, and depending on the site, you get a bunch of information. Mainly useless information that you can't get anywhere else, but there's something creepy about adding ".ipaddress.com" to any domain name. For example: codeproject.com.ipaddress.com[^] :~
Latest Article - A 4-Stack rPI Cluster with WiFi-Ethernet Bridging Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
Do you know how sub-domains work? I believe this is brilliant, not at all creepy.
