Can I get someone's name and address from their IP address?

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Hello Leo, recently someone at my school made a piczo site making very mean and extremely hurtful comments about me and other people in my school, is there anyway to get the person's ip from the website so i can then contact the proper authorities as some of these remarks re very threatening?

Only the people who run the website can tell that information. You can't get it yourself.

I would login to your eBay account change the password and the email address asap. I don;t believe you can track the person yourself, buy you should report this to Ebay and provide them with the information - thay may be able to use it.

There is basically NO WAY for us common people to "track down" and pinpoint or locate a person to their house via the internet just by using the IP adress and hunting ourselves.

The closest you may get is obtaining their IP address, and going to a site like "Geobytes.com" and clicking "IP Locator" and it will give you what city they may be from. OTher than that... it doesn't get any closer than that.

Please see www.ip2location.com

As I keep telling people, that type of service gets you only the region, not the address. In my case it's 20 *miles* wrong.

It does correctly identify my ISP, which is what I've been saying all along is all you can get.

Recently in June 2006 someone had posted my unlisted name and home address at a yahoo group. I was able to get their IP address and find out the location of the person. I have their yahoo ID and a copy of the posting of my address. I filed a complaint with Yahoo and they took the necessary action according to their TOS,which is being ban from Yahoo.
I still would like to know who this person is and how they were able to get hold of my unlisted address. I contacted the FBI and they said to file a complaint online, Internet Crime Center.
Any other suggestions?

Hi Leo, suppose someone knows your IP, and he calls your ISP, but your Ip is not static. My IPS can still give my personal information, even if my IP changes everytime? They keep a log with all the IPs they gave me?

Depends on the ISP. They certainly could.

yeah, try this site ip-adress.com,,,,,it will work wonders 4 u.....ciao

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