Week 2 Web 101 Activities

Activity One - Routing in Action!
When you make a request to another computer on the Internet, that request passes through a number of other computers on its way to the host. We can see this in action:

• Click on this link to open a new page in your browser.
• Click the Proxy Trace button to see a visual representation of your request leaving your computer, passing through the web page's host in Los Angeles, and on to the Google headquarters near San Francisco.
• Now, change the remote address in the dialogue box to find the geographical location of the headquarters of wikipedia.org, amazon.com and flickr.com.
• Finally, see if you can find a popular website that is not hosted in the US or Australia.

It was interesting to see where your packets go to get their information. Looks like my packets always head down to Melbourne and then out to Signapore, then USA and then to where ever it needs to go.

I did find out that yes indeed www.oxyblumedia.com is hosted in America... Florida by the looks of it. www.istockphoto.com is in Canada.
www.flyeralarm.de is in Germany.
www.voice-pool.com is in Germany as well.

Activity Two - Who Owns What?
All domain names are registered either to a business or an individual. Now, we're going to use that knowledge to do a little snooping!

• Click on this link to open a new page in your browser.
• This page performs a search for the owner of a particular domain name. Enter curtin.edu.au in the whois lookup field and perform a check to find the owner (Hint: Scroll down to the registrant).

Registrant:                      Curtin University of Technology

• Now we know who owns the Curtin domain name - Curtin University! No surprises there.
• Now, perform checks on each of the following domain names to find who owns them:
• flickr.com

 

Registrant:
        Domain Administrator
        Yahoo! Inc.
        701 First Avenue
         Sunnyvale CA 94089
        US
        domainadmin@yahoo-inc.com +1.4083493300 Fax: +1.4083493301

• youtube.com

Registrant:
        DNS Admin
        Google Inc.
        1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
         Mountain View CA 94043
        US
        dns-admin@google.com +1.6502530000 Fax: +1.6506188571

 

• mickey.com

Domain Name.......... mickey.com
  Creation Date........ 1999-04-09
  Registration Date.... 2010-02-25
  Expiry Date.......... 2011-04-10
  Organisation Name.... Buena Vista Internet Group
  Organisation Address. 500 S. Buena Vista Street
  Organisation Address. 506 Second Ave. Suite 2100
  Organisation Address. Burbank
  Organisation Address. 91521
  Organisation Address. CA
  Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

 

• Now do a check for the following domain names:
• gooogle.com

Registrant:
        DNS Admin
        Google Inc.
        1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
         Mountain View CA 94043
        US
        dns-admin@google.com +1.6506234000 Fax: +1.6506188571

 

• yaho.com

Registrant:
        Domain Administrator
        Yahoo! Inc.
        701 First Avenue
         Sunnyvale CA 94089
        US
        domainadmin@yahoo-inc.com +1.4083493300 Fax: +1.4083493301

 

• Who owns these domain names? Why do you think this is?

Google and yahoo own these alternative domain names so that for those you mistype the address will still be redirected to their correct websites. Also stops impostor websites from emerging and mirroring their successful websites