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We Determine
Your Sales & Service Location
Using Your IP Address
The Internet Protocol addressing system was
spearheaded by the US Dept. of Defense and
systematized in 1980 when they released the
Standard Internet Protocol in January 1980. Your
IP address) is a numerical label assigned to
each device (e.g., your computer or printer)
participating in a computer network that uses
the Internet Protocol for communication.
Your IP address serves two principal functions:
host or network interface identification and
location addressing. Its role has been
characterized as follows: "A name indicates what
we seek. Your address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how to get there."
In other words, your IP address is like your
telephone number that identifies your equipment
and by implication, who you are and where you
are. In essence, your IP identifies you on the
internet and facilitates communication between
your computer and the rest of the internet. The
designers of the Internet Protocol defined an IP
address as a 32-bit number and this system,
known as Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), is
still in use today. However, due to the enormous
growth of the Internet and the predicted
depletion of available addresses, a new
addressing system (IPv6), using 128 bits for the
address, was developed in 1995, standardized as
RFC 2460 in 1998, and is being deployed
worldwide since the mid-2000s.
IP addresses are binary numbers, but they
are usually stored in text files and
displayed in human-readable notations, such
as 172.16.254.1 (for IPv4), and
2001:db8:0:1234:0:567:8:1 (for IPv6).
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
manages the IP address space allocations
globally and delegates five regional Internet
registries (RIRs) to allocate IP address blocks
to local Internet registries (Internet service
providers) and other entities.
The What's
My IP script in this Web site, is powered by
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