How Do We Know Website Location?

If you contact a company website do they know your exact location?

• If you contact a company website with their conatct form or their webiste do they know your exact location? or if you use their contact address to send them a message can they tell ...show more

• Answer:

  There is some tracking software that can map an ip address and match it to publicly available data mapping domain name ownership to dns name servers. From this they are able to show that this particular ip address is associated with a particular domain name owned by a particular company - then they are able to use publicly available data about that company ( directors, employees, financial info, etc) . So, for example. Suppose you are at work and you decide to send a competitor some information via their online form. If they have this tracking software, they will know that the form was sent by someone at your company. If your company is small, the they will have a pretty good chance of guessing who sent that information. What they then do with that knowledge is up to them.