Why New York?

[Andilinks]

I have no problem with being identified with New York, I may even move there and from a fashion marketing standpoint it's way better than Orlando. But how did this location get into the system?

http://www.andistars.com/ny.gif

[Bradley]

I was wondering this awhile back when I saw that location attached to my server's IPs. :dunno:

[Wassercrats]

I did a business search at these three sites:

http://www.sos.state.co.us/biz/BusinessEntityCriteriaExt.do
http://www.sunbiz.org/corinam.html
http://appsext8.dos.state.ny.us/corp_public/corpsearch.entity_search_entry

And couldn't find an active entry for FutureQuest. So not only are they in NY, they're also nowhere.

[Terra]

GeoIP is not an exact science... :(

My home RoadRunner IP, when I was in Oviedo FL, showed me in New York as well... :(

This one gets it right:
http://www.maxmind.com/
(punch in the IP address)

as does this one:
http://www.geoiptool.com/en/?IP=69.5.8.251

Looks like this is a problem with whois.domaintools.com

[Andilinks]

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Looks like this is a problem with whois.domaintools.com
Thanks for clearing that up. I thought of that as a possibility but a New York connection would have been intriguing too. :)

[Jeff]

Since arin shows the ip authority as florida and that wouldn't work for large ISPs, I guess domaintools must look at the route to the actual IP to make their geo-guess? I notice some older sites on FutureQuest show on domaintools as Florida, so I'm out of guesses...

[Randall]

Huh. Pretty sure DomainTools said Florida in the past, but now I'm seeing NY too...

<conspiracy> Maybe it has something to do with Hillary and those half-size Florida delegates: "All your state are belong to us." </conspiracy>

Randall