I have tried to trace an ISP number for a friend that is suffering bullying on a music forum.I have only come across sites that charge for the service.Is there any way I can do this for free? I’m trying to help someone but don’t want to be $40 out of pocket for a search that may not even be correct.Thanks in advance.
An ISP, or internet service provider, can allow customers to access the internet by giving them the use of an IP address:
an example would be: 216.109.112.135
If you go to this URL:
http://centralops.net/co/DomainDossier.aspx
you can use a form to find out more information about that number. be sure to check the boxes for "domain whois record" "network whois record" and "DNS records"
The number above is used by Yahoo.com and indicates a relationship between Yahoo! and Hotjobs.
In their case, the IP address is used for publishing a web site – computer gamers use their IP address to access other computers. Many computer games allow to to obtain the IP address of the other players – you can us the "domain dossier" service at centralops.net to easily find out the name of the ISP that is providing the IP address. In the domain records, you should be able to find a phone number and email address for an abuse contact. Continuous abuse from IP addresses of a particular ISP or hosting company can and should be escalated to ARIN,(see note in sources) but in most cases all you need to do is find the abuse contact at the offender’s ISP and file a complaint. Be sure to include the exact time of the incident(s).
Hope that does it for you!
January 31st, 2010 at 9:56 am
Try this: http://network-tools.com
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January 31st, 2010 at 10:25 am
try whois.com
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January 31st, 2010 at 11:13 am
You can trace an I.P number but you cannot find out the address of the originating computer. There are ways of tricking someone into giving you their home address but realistically the best you can do is to inform the Internet Service Provider (ISP) where the address comes from that someone is abusing their service. They cannot reveal the name of the customer but they CAN cut them off at their discretion.
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January 31st, 2010 at 11:42 am
here is an instructional video that runs you through how to tracce any ip in the world then see a satellite picture of the area.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/435158/trace_any_ip_address_in_the_world/
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January 31st, 2010 at 12:27 pm
i had once a aplication that was doing this…. it worked like a traceroute app and was displaing to you all the data available about the owner of every ip you had passed to get to destination ip. The app i`m talking about is developed by mcaffe (the antivirus), you can downloadit from their website, and they have free versions or trial versions and i think is enough to help you in this problem.
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January 31st, 2010 at 12:40 pm
An ISP, or internet service provider, can allow customers to access the internet by giving them the use of an IP address:
an example would be: 216.109.112.135
If you go to this URL:
http://centralops.net/co/DomainDossier.aspx
you can use a form to find out more information about that number. be sure to check the boxes for "domain whois record" "network whois record" and "DNS records"
The number above is used by Yahoo.com and indicates a relationship between Yahoo! and Hotjobs.
In their case, the IP address is used for publishing a web site – computer gamers use their IP address to access other computers. Many computer games allow to to obtain the IP address of the other players – you can us the "domain dossier" service at centralops.net to easily find out the name of the ISP that is providing the IP address. In the domain records, you should be able to find a phone number and email address for an abuse contact. Continuous abuse from IP addresses of a particular ISP or hosting company can and should be escalated to ARIN,(see note in sources) but in most cases all you need to do is find the abuse contact at the offender’s ISP and file a complaint. Be sure to include the exact time of the incident(s).
Hope that does it for you!
References :
http://centralops.net/co/
http://www.arin.net/
http://www.arin.net/abuse.html
note regarding ARIN -
although they don’t track down and stop hackers,
they do have the power to de-allocate addresses that
are used by companies that violate their terms of service -
in other words, the ISPs get their addresses from ARIN and if they are unresponsive to abuse issues, ARIN can take away the addresses that are available to the ISP.