Re: Correlating an IP address with a phone number

From: J. Theriault (administrator@maginetworks.com)
Date: Wed Jan 11 2006 - 13:09:29 EST


kuffya@gmail.com wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Is there a way to correlate an IP address with a phone number? ...

Greetings in return,

A Simple Answer: No.

A Longer Answer: No - At least not without a court order. IP addressing
has nothing to do with the telephone numbering system - and most IP
addresses are dynamic in the first place (as in, the IP address is
different every time the subscriber connects to the Internet) - but you
may 'request' (see "court order" in the last sentence) the contact
information of a subscriber who was using a certain IP at a certain
time, under certain circumstances, from their ISP.

Cheers,

J. Theriault
administrator@maginetworks.com

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