Where

[Playbill]

is the answerbank based?

In answer to various questions on this site it has been mentioned that the site is British so non British posters may not find the best answers here. I recently downloaded a programme that shows the location of every site I visit and it shows that answerbank.co.uk is based in the USA.

So, is .co.uk or .co.anywhere meaningless?

[tamborine]

.com & .co.uk appear to be Kettering, Northants and .org seems to be Idaho

[R1Geezer]

no program can know the locaton of a site.

[zig.zag]

i'd go along with Idaho
they tend to take your scalp on here lmao

[hc4361]

Answerbank is registered to Crystal Guides Ltd, a UK company with a registered company address in Kettering, Northants.

[Playbill]

R1Geezer
I downloaded from Mozilla today and it gives the country location of every site I click on. I have no way of knowing if the information is always correct but it made me wonder about the suffix .uk. Another .uk site shows up as in Ireland. Maybe this is not so important on information sites, but might be a problem if you are buying something and think the company is based here.

[hc4361]

I hope anybody buying goods off the internet would check the site out for the company address, returns policy and where to return to, VAT number (if UK), landline phone number and terms and conditions. All that information and much more should be easily available on the website.

[tamborine]

Domain sites give the ownership addressess

[paintpowder1]

Apparently there is one,and free to Firefox users:

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/utilities/flagfox-firefox-extension/1281996/

[Mr Veritas]

Further to your question,this may help:but it will require someone technical on AB to decipher it! LOL
http://www.robtex.com/dns/answerbank.co.uk.html

[fo3nix]

1) The AB seems to draw a mainly UK-based crowd, hence why you're likely to get UK-based information more often. Perhaps due to the domain ending in .uk, or perhaps it's more advertised on other UK-based sites?

2) The domain registration system is not connected to server hosting. You can purchase any domain you like, whether it's .com, .co.uk, .co.fr, .de, whatever. You can host that site wherever you like. The idea with the different domains was to make it easier to assess where the company or service is based: .com are for international commercial site (but due to history and USA getting the internet first, tend to be American sites), .co.uk for UK-based commercial entities, etc.

3) The domain (from a whois lookup) seems to be associated with a company in Kettering, silverdisc.co.uk.

4) Tracing the responding server's IP, it seems to be hosted somewhere near Sayreville, New Jersey, USA.

5) Any stuff about purchasing goods and that kind of thing is nothing to do with the domain name or where the server itself is hosted. The rights you have are specified by where the company itself is registered. As I say above, this can be a UK-based company, registered in the UK, and host its website anywhere else in the world, with a domain for any other country in the world. The only issue with hosting elsewhere is that there are separate data protection acts, copyright acts, etc., with information on the server hosted in another country.

Hope this helps.

[R1Geezer]

yes but the basic issue is that a site may well be registered in a certain place but the server can be in Timbuctoo. I had a site regetered as .CO.UK but it was actually in the US.

[Playbill]

Thanks for all your answers.

On the question of BUYING on the internet I always do check on the company's location, etc, but does everybody?

fo3nix's information that the server can be anywhere in the world makes sense. But now I see how this can be used by more devious types to hide their true location.