Does anyone know how to trace an IP Address?

Question

Somebody has used photos of me, some of the images are copy right. I have phoned the police and even though these people/person have broken a copy righting law apparently its a civil matter... And I need to contact a solicitor... Obviously this can't be right... A person posing as me on sex websites, the things they have said on the site are disgusting, I have emailed the web sites 3 times to get the profile taken down, this has not been done! Yet the police refuse point blank to do anything at all? How can I trace the IP address to try and get them taken down?

Answer 1

Use WhoIs lookup:

http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/whois/ip-who-is.php

http://www.find-ip-address.org/whois-lookup.php



Then you will know who is owner of the website. Email him again. Usually administrator of the website can remove profile from person if that broke rules of the website but you can not push him to give you more information;s about that person. It is probably against their privacy policy.

You can only do that with court order.

Answer 2

Some websites accept reports of this kind of abuse and will take action against it. You don't need to know the IP address for this; just contact the website administrator. But you have tried this. Tracing the person involved is a more complicated process and I would advise you to get professional legal advice before beginning.



The process involves just as much legal action as it does technical processes, because most of the data you need is locked away on privately owned and operated servers, inaccessible without cooperation from the owners or a court order compelling them to reveal it.



You can look up the registered owner of any IP address using a whois (as in "who is") tool. The registered owner is not necessarily the person who uses the address. It might be a service provider they use, for example. Sometimes people use whois anonymising services, perhaps to stop people sending spam email to their contact address. But if you dig deeply enough you can unravel the trail by contacting whoever is listed and finding out from them who uses the address.



There is no point in tracing the IP address of the website, unless you need to find out who owns the website. To trace the offending person who posted the pictures, you need their IP address instead. To do that, you have to ask the website.



The website is likely to have a log of which IP address people used to post things on it, and at which time they did so. This is privately held by the website.



Ultimately, you want to find an IP address owned by a consumer ISP, which would imply that you have now found the address of the actual computer that was used to post the pictures. ISPs hold information about which customer of theirs was leased which IP address at which date and time. Again, this information is kept private.



Alternatively, you might find an IP address belonging to a business or other organization, implying that one of their staff posted the pictures.



Your search could be stopped short by a number of anonymising technologies that, if they were used, would make it completely impossible, on a technical level, to trace where the pictures were posted from. You may be able to trace things back to a particular computer, only to find that the owner is completely innocent on account of one of these technologies having been used.



Edit: sorry, didn't read your question quite right; have changed my answer accordingly.

Answer 3

specific and no. by making use of tracing your IP handle all they might get is the area of the internet provider provider (ISP) that has rights to that handle. So once you're making use of a close-by in basic terms ISP then they might get an concept of the place you reside. besides the undeniable fact that, it quite is the place the direction ends for a classic citizen. yet while a regulation enforcement agent has some reason of looking you, they might hint you by making use of your IP handle. They do an identical element as in the previous and hint what ISP gave out the handle, then they ask for the ISP's records and locate out who became into making use of the handle on the time they're searching for.

Answer 4

Use the link below to open up a website where you can enter the IP address of the website.



http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation



If you don't know the IP address, you can open up a command prompt and type:-



PING



Press ENTER and you will see the IP address on the 4 reply lines.



Type this IP into the 'IP Address to locate' box and click 'Submit'.



You will be shown the country of origin, as well as the general location the site's servers are in.



If you scroll down further, you will see a Google map of the area.



Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Via http://whois.domaintools.com for example.

Answer 6

the police are right it is a civil matter see a lawyer