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Append ".ipaddress.com" to any domain name, and depending on the site, you get a bunch of information. Mainly useless information that you can't get anywhere else, but there's something creepy about adding ".ipaddress.com" to any domain name.
For example: codeproject.com.ipaddress.com[^]
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Especially that CodeProject is apparently being served from the middle of a lake!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Exactly, that is for cooling the immense CodeProject datacenters 
Here is some footage of Chinese spammers attacking the CodeProject base:
Ninjas at the CP Base - YouTube[^]
modified 30-Apr-19 15:44pm.
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Forogar wrote: Especially that CodeProject is apparently being served from the middle of a lake!
As is ravib.com. 
/ravi
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Basically, appending "abc.com" to any domain name causes the DNS to resolve "abc.com" first, and the rest becomes a subdomain - which the IPaddress domain uses to ID the domain you want to know about.
That's no more creepy than appending my landline number to your mobile number: the telephone system would ring my number and I'd pick up your mobile from the remaining tones (assuming I answered in time).
Handy, if you want the public info on a site : the visitor percentages by country are interesting!
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I guess the creepyness lies in the amount of details about the CP traffic that is collected and presented by this "service".
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It's all public - there are a number of people who provide it, if the domain is ranked high enough: internet site traffic statistics - Google Search[^]
(My domain just gets host location and so forth, which surprises me not at all  )
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The biggest surprise when I put mine in was that sometime in the last few years my hosting company apparently switched from LightSpeed HTTPD to Apache. Doesn't affect anything I do, on the web end I've never used it as more than a file share; the account primarily exists to let me run a bouncer for my IRC connection with bottom tier shared hosting as a dirt cheap addon.
If I were to do anything serious with it I'd switch to .net hosting of some sort; but I don't think I've even got a line of javascript on it currently never mind php or whatever penguin stack the hosting company installed in its default deploy.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
That's no more creepy than appending my landline number to your mobile number: the telephone system would ring my number...
Really? I would assume that the phone system would dial the first 10 digits and ignore the rest. For example, dialing 1-87-SPEEDPASS would only acknowledge 1-87-SPEEDPA and ignore the last two SS.
Or maybe I completely misunderstood your comment.
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well yeah, as OG mentioned he'd hear the tones "if picked up hast enough" - probably would miss almost all of it unless you have superhuman reflexes and the exchange links the connections fast enough. (i.e. those tones would be sent during the ringing time)
same as if you dial someone and while talking to them start pressing the number buttons - you hear the button tones. (think helplines: "press '1' for English, '2' for Chinese ... '9' for go away")
but even helplines would miss the first numbers if appended to the dialed phone number (before pressing call) ...the exchange end-to-end connection completion on receiving party pickup takes a while, even the new exchanges there's still some milliseconds in there.
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International dialling uses more than the 10 digits used in the US. For example, to dial an international number, I have to dial an international access code (2-3 digits), the country code (1-3 digits), an the national number (7-10 digits), for a total of 10-16 digits.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: International dialling uses more than the 10 digits used in the US.
I wondered about that, but just wasn't sure.
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OriginalGriff wrote: the visitor percentages by country are interesting!
Yeah, I also found that interesting. Iran?
From the map, I'm going to assume they have a secret lair just under the surface, kind of like some Bond villain.
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Try doing that to your banking site - mine said I was entering a hacker domain and was in danger of losing my identity.
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When I entered my banking site, it said that "it was still being evaluated." 
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Who else did that for stackoverflow.com immediately after Code Project?
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Yes. They are located on Cheney reservoir, south of Wichita, Kansas. Are all US datacenters now located underwater?
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They are not located in a lake. They used to show in the centroid of an area which happened to be a hapless person who did not even have an internet connection.
Nonetheless, angry people would show up at his/her house threatening them since the website that stole their credit card was shown to reside at his/her house.
The location service was forced to pin unknown locations to bodies to save the innocent people from harassment.
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So who else thought it best to test it with:
ipaddress.com.ipaddress.com[^]
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