Identifying An IP Address

Is there some kind of utility that will allow me to look up an IP address..
for example: 72.89.196.14 1...and determine something about where it came
from? Page stats on my website give me an IP address, and I'd like to
get a little better idea where the visitor came from.

Thanks!
Scott

"Scott" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Is there some kind of utility that will allow me to look up an IP
> address..
> for example: 72.89.196.14 1...and determine something about where it came
> from? Page stats on my website give me an IP address, and I'd like to
> get a little better idea where the visitor came from.
>
> Thanks!
> Scott

Open a CMD prompt window and type

nslookup 72.89.196.14

It comes back to a DHCP pool for Verizon in NY.

Hi
There are two type of services that are available free on the Internet.
Whois - You type a domain name (Like, Microsoft.com) and you get the
publicly avail info about the domain.
Reverse Whois - You type an IP numbers and you get info about it.
Your example 72.89.196.14 is an IP own by Verizon. I.e ii is probably an
address of a customer that uses Verizon DSL.
You can use Live search or Google (for whois and reverse whois) to find
pages that provide the service.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

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> On 3-Feb-2007, Scott <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Is there some kind of utility that will allow me to look up an IP
>> address..
>> for example: 72.89.196.14 1...and determine something about where it came
>> from? Page stats on my website give me an IP address, and I'd like to
>> get a little better idea where the visitor came from.
>
> Google for -> who is
>
> And find sites that convert the dotted quad to registration
> details.
> Some numbers relate to national domains, eg uk.com
> and you need to find the corresponding national who is
> eg Nominet.
> There are also some graphical traceroute utilities that
> will attempt to resolve the dotted quad to registration
> details.
> All it involves is a bit of detective work, sometimes
> simple, sometimes a bit more complex. Like some ISP's
> are registered in one country, from which they draw their
> IP address range, but offer services in several countries.

The following has been quite helpfull for me to identify IP addresses :
www.senderbase.org