Originally Posted by JTR

So did you actually get my address over the internet or is that a bluff?

Cuz if you can do that shit, then could you get me a couple peoples addresses if I provide an AIM screen name or a facebook account?

Cuz i'd definetly pay you a good sum of money if you could...

Originally Posted by Phenom-in-all

guy u r turning into a stalker for real. are u bein bullied that bad online er what..... jaaaayyyyzzz.

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Originally Posted by 2v

you cannot hack their address.. you can only hack their local service provider and get a general sense of the area that they live in based on their internet connection and the near-by connection server that they run on..

in other words you can't find out whose computer it is based on their unique computer address unless you have a sense of their location, there isn't a database of computers attributed to their owners, only computers attributed to areas.

That's the science of the U.S.'s FBI investigations of people who break federal laws over computers in any case.

Originally Posted by http://ask-leo.com/can_i_get_someones_name_and_address_from_their_ip_ address.html

I have the IP address from someone who's causing me some problems. Can I get their name and location from that?

Yes and no.

But mostly no.

I get this question a lot, so let me explain.

As I've discussed in previous articles, there are common services on the internet that will return information about an IP address. Services like ARIN, PlotIP and others will return information about the ISP or hosting company that owns the block that the IP is a part of. Typically that will include the name, address, phone number of the ISP.
"... if you're a regular person just trying to track something down on your own, you simply can not get the information."

At that point your only option is to contact the ISP and ask them. They do know which of their customers the IP is assigned to. The problem is that ISP's will not give this information out to just anyone. Typically it will require legal actions, as part of some kind of police or court proceeding, to get the ISP to release the information.

So can you get a name an address from an IP? Yes ... if you have the legal backing to go get it. Otherwise, if you're a regular person just trying to track something down on your own, you simply can not get the information.

Originally Posted by http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081127222906AAnGx6m

That is not possible. It is against privacy law and only way to get fully address of person behind IP address is to contact his ISP.
And they will probably not disclose you any information's without court order.

But anyway with some advanced IP address locators like:

http://www.find-ip-address.org
http://www.ipaddresslocation.org


you can get a lot informations about owner of IP address. The full address is not possible.

Originally Posted by http://www.businessknowledgesource.com/technology/can_i_get_someones_name_and_address_from_their_ip_ address_021491.html

Can I get someone's name and address from their IP address? This is a great question. There are a lot of myths and rumors that swirl around the Internet about IP addresses. I read a question on one message board on which a very, very concerned parent asked about IP addresses and stalkers. Apparently, this poor woman's kid had posted something rather mean and unflattering on someone else's blog
or something like that. The owner of the website then replied to the kid. He told this kid that he had his IP address, and so he now knew his exact home address, his phone number, his name, his social security number, had access to credit cards and bank accounts, knew his work address, and basically every single confidential and private piece of information that you could know about a person and, of course, that he was going to come and get this poor kid.

You can see why the mother was concerned.

Well, to rest your uneasy minds (or maybe to disappoint you a little bit), you can't get that much information just from someone's IP address. But you can get a fair amount.

First of all, let's define an IP address. Basically, an IP address is a number-a totally unique number-that is assigned to each machine on the Internet. An example of what an IP address looks like is 892.6.3.237 An IP address functions essentially like your phone number does. Your computer has an IP address when the computer is online. Websites have IP addresses. Computers communicate through IP addresses. The way that your computer finds the website that you type in to your search engine or whatever is by looking up its IP address, and then finding the exact location of the IP address in cyberspace. I don't want to get too complicated here, so I'll keep things really simple. IP addresses can be recorded by websites. People who run blogs or websites where you can communicate can keep track and record the IP addresses of the computers that visit their websites. Actually, a website can record the IP address of every computer that visits the site. This means that essentially you're all being kept track of.

However, there is something that you should know. The majority of the time, the IP address that is being used is not actually the address of your computer. Instead, the IP address that's used when you go online on your computer is the IP address of the server that you're connecting to. So rather than your physical location being recorded, the physical location of your server is being recorded.

There are a number of websites that you can visit to find the geographical location of an IP address. For example, you could go to http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation. Another great website that keeps track of IP addresses and will help you find the geographical location of the IP address is www.arin.com. Another one that you can go to, and that Arin will link you to if you want it, is www.domaintools.com. Two more great IP address geographical location websites are www.ip2location.com. Or try the website www.dnsstuff.com. Now you should know that you can find the city and state and country of a specific IP address through one of these sites. The other thing that you should know is that you can't pin down the exact physical address-the street location, etc.-with just an IP address and one of these sites. It doesn't work quite like a cell phone locator does in that respect. Of course, if you're a hotshot hacker and you really know your way around computers, you could find the physical location of a computer somehow. But even your midlevel hacker and troublemaker can't find a name and an exact physical location with only an IP address.