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Roman"">ARIN has issued its initial response to ACSP
Suggestion 2012.16. The suggestion and response text are
provided below. This suggestion is now closed and is available
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Roman""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2012-16.html">https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2012-16.html</a></span><span
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</span><span
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Suggestion: </span></b><span
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I am a college student majoring in Information Systems Security, and
one of our projects is to use the resources of your whoi-is service
to determine the IP addresses of 3 universities' and find out if
your service can determine the geography of the specific IP
addresses (with accuracy). My question is how do I do this?<span
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Thank you for contacting us regarding Whois. As you may know, ARIN's
Whois service gives contact and registration information for IP
addresses, autonomous system numbers (ASN), organizations or
customers that are associated with these resources, and related
Points of Contact (POC). It doesn't include information on domain
names or military networks.<br>
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We provide a web interface to Whois data at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://whois.arin.net/ui/">http://whois.arin.net/ui/</a> - using the search box in the upper-right
part of the screen, you can search for specific IP addresses and
organizations and get back information regarding the networks and
organizations associated with those Internet number resources.
Actual geographic locations of where these IP addresses are used are
not part of the dataset in Whois and ARIN does not track or provide
such data.<br>
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Documentation on how to use the Whois service is provided at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.arin.net/resources/whoisrws/whois_api.html">https://www.arin.net/resources/whoisrws/whois_api.html</a><br>
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I hope this information proves helpful. As this is not something
within the scope of this suggestion process, this suggestion is now
closed. If you need further assistance, please contact our
Registration Services Help Desk at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hostmaster@arin.net">hostmaster@arin.net</a>.<span
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