Here is the Whois info for purple.com with the business and technical
contacts via Network Solutions. Sorry if this info is late or
redundant. I'm in Atlanta at the moment.
domain: PURPLE.COM
owner-name: purple
owner-address: 4411 Pine Street 19104
owner-address: 19104
owner-address: Philadelphia
owner-address: Pennsylvania
owner-address: United States of America
admin-c: JA363-GANDI
tech-c: RP707-GANDI
bill-c: JA363-GANDI
nserver: ftp.ee.vill.edu 153.104.63.227
nserver: ns1.misty.com 198.137.254.5
reg_created: 1994-08-31 00:00:00
expires: 2008-08-30 04:00:00
created: 2003-08-15 18:55:23
changed: 2007-06-30 14:31:57
person: Jeff Abrahamson
nic-hdl: JA363-GANDI
address: 4411 Pine Street
address: 19104
address: Philadelphia
address: Pennsylvania
address: United States of America
phone: +1 2156621712
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lastupdated: 2006-12-15 16:16:09
person: Rick Perry
nic-hdl: RP707-GANDI
address: RP Consulting
address: 3301 Highland Ave.
address: 19026-1426
address: Drexel Hill
address: Pennsylvania
address: United States of America
phone: +11.6102598734
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lastupdated: 2007-02-19 10:12:32
On Jul 29, 2007, at 07:20 PM, Andrew Diller wrote:
S. Sharrieff Ali wrote:
> Yeah...I have told the story too many times.
> Check the archives.
>
> But no institutional affiliation.
>
> But this is my favorite link:
>
> http://www.purple.com/money/donate.html
>
>
> I am surprised you have never read the purple pages?
>
> S
>
>
If I may---- Actually, there is institutional affiliation: Villanova!
For some context, there are two things you need to know about any
computer on the Internet:
1. who hold the DNS records for that domain
2. where is the IP address of the server located? (what ISP?)
Only large institutions (penn, apple, comcast) 'own' the blocks of
IP addresses that each computer must have to participate on the
Internet. When you pay one of these people to host your server,
they lend you an IP address. You then map a name (list.purple.com)
to that particular ip address, and then people can use your server.
People don't find it easy to type in numbers like 153.104.63.228
all the time, so other smart people invented DNS (the Domain Name
system). Almost every IP address has a DNS name mapped to it to
make it easy for people to use.
So using DNS, we can address things like email to list.purple.com
(which is a particular computer) instead of it's IP address, which
is 153.104.63.228. Both those point to the same thing.
So, to answer #1, it looks like Villanova holds the DNS records for
purple. So it is safe to say that there _is_ an institutional
affiliation for purple.
Here is the record for it's DNS:
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;purple.com. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
purple.com. 6716 IN SOA
ftp.ece.villanova.edu. root.ftp.ece.villanova.edu. 2006061100 43200
14400 3600000 259200
;; Query time: 10 msec
;; SERVER: 207.245.82.2#53(207.245.82.2)
;; WHEN: Sun Jul 29 19:08:36 2007
And here is a GEO lookup for the actual list.purple.com computer:
The IP 153.104.63.228 is located in:
Country: United States (US)
Region: PA
City: Villanova
Latitude: 40.0369
Longitude: -75.3486
(http://www.websitegoodies.com/tools/geoip.php)
So, there you are.
-andy
-andy diller
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