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@pdx yea you nailed it. Most of our users end building a BrandYourself Profile, which is a simple (but pretty) profile that's really well structured around your
by patrickambron 14y ago
@pdx yea you nailed it. Most of our users end building a BrandYourself Profile, which is a simple (but pretty) profile that's really well structured around your name, so it generally ranks on your first page. From there we can use the IP addresses of visitors to determine who they are
We could always tell you when someone found that profile and where they came from (they came from FB, or they came from Google after Googling your name", but recently we started mapping the IP address to organizations. That data is really accesible--you can buy a list from most major hosting companies--but it's not really used for this purpose
- nyellin 14y agoHaven't tried this, but can't just do a whois query for the IP address?
- rhp 14y agoThat's not always reliable. For example, if you do a query on my company's web server IP address, you'll just get the name of our ISP as your result.
- mappu 14y agoWhois on an IP address - you mean rDNS, right? Are you sending mail from this server without fcrdns? Most VPS providers will let you change the rDNS record for the IP.
- count 14y agoNo, rDNS And whois are different things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois vs reverse DNS, which you are obviously familiar with.
- mnutt 14y agoI haven't used it, but MaxMind sells an organization database along with their GeoIP database: http://www.maxmind.com/app/organization http://www.maxmind.com/app/organization
- patrickambron 14y agoYea you can get a similar list from a few places. The problem will be that manytimes the IP will return the company's ISP, which isn't useful for the user