IP Geolocation website (free lookups)

[Travis Roy]

We used that at Burst for targeted internet advertising.. It kinda 
worked. It was worthless for people on AOL since they all come through a 
handful of proxies. Some other ISPs were the same way.


Fred wrote:
> To those looking to track down the origin of questionable IPs:
> 
> http://www.ip2location.com/free.asp
> 
> I just tracked down a few hitting my ssh port with bogus request, and
> they are all coming from China, Taiwan, or Hong Cong. Most curious.
> 
> You could use their databases to restrict access to your machine from a
> particular country (US) -- they offer mappings in CSV format for a
> nominal fee. 
> 
> There is a bit of controversy about "dividing up" the Internet on the
> basis of IP origin. Personally, I have no problems with this if done for
> purely marketing reasons, but other uses may not be as savory. Some may
> even question doing that with marketing. What's your opinion on it?
>