I'm not sure I understand your post...

My demo page is for Google GEO Location in reply to a GEO Location post; and as I said IP/Location is different...?

If your name is [removed by tbb] then it looks like there could be an issue.

Unless he works for AAISP but even that looks strange as "The registrant is a non-trading individual..." which isn't right.

Edited by seb (Sat 05-Mar-11 19:12:47)

Yes, I was just confirming that it is clearly not the method used by whatismyip, as you said.

I updated it the other day when this thread started, will probably take a few days to propagate.

(wait, did you just use your server records for that? lol, nice phishing)

Edited by deleted (Sat 05-Mar-11 18:44:18)

I guess it was, sorry

I see seb has edited my post - for anyone reading this, I only posted the first initial of the surname that a WHOIS reports, so I wasn't being too daft

Back in 2008 I wrote a few words about "Surfing DNA and the trail you leave" - over on my provider's (Freeola) Chat forum.

I think it's worth people realising what details they are leaving/displaying when they visit a website. Depending on your provider and setup sometimes these can be quite revealing unless you've thought things through.

In reply to a post by 12eason:

You're lucky, some sites have managed to associate my IP with a location to within a square mile of my house. I still have no idea how they've done it.

They're pretty wrong about the location of my IPs, I tried a few from my public A&A allocated range and it claims they're in Bath and Bradford for the ones I tested which is wrong in just about every way.

That same site puts my location in Ayr which considering I live in Wales, is rather a bit out!

Was your location determined from your IP address? I've noticed recently that when I Google some results already know that I am in Hawarden, Flintshire - which would by definition be within one mile of my location.

Guess similar technology which recently kept bringing up adverts for some technical kit that I had previously Googled - that became a real right pain once I had purchased the kit........... Spybot sorted that one out.

Cheers!

This was one of the first things I checked when they allocated both my IPv4 and IPv6/48. I asked them to change it to something less personally identifiable, and also put them as a c/o contact on the RIPE record, which they did before my line even got made live.

Not sure whether they actually tell customers this is going to happen, but being the techy ISP they are, it immediately crossed my mind to check this - and I'm glad I did.

I also wish aaisp made it more obvious, or made it an option on the signup page (it wasn't when I last signed someone up). I just warn people when I recommend to them, and recommend they ask support to fix it on their account.