The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

[William Case]

Hi Ed;

Just an off topic comment.

On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 10:43 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> William Case wrote:
> 
> > Yes. I have used whois or jwhois.  I guess just by looking at
> > 64.71.255.198 I can't tell much, but have to use whois to find out more.
> > I was wondering if say, all Broadcast companies are grouped as
> > 64.70.xxx.xxx to 64.90.xxx.xxx or some such scheme -- but I guess not.
> > Not much point to it, on thinking about it.
> 
> You are correct.  The IP address alone won't tell you much.  They may be 
> some rhyme or reason as to how they are doled out...but the rhyme/reason is 
> not consistent over all of the world.  And the rhyme/reason is most likely 
> predicated on the physical.
> 
When I was a kid here in Ontario, you could tell what part of the
province a car was from just by the first couple of numbers on the
license plate, but that time is long gone.


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Regards Bill;
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