"Within the Internet, an Autonomous System (AS) is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators that presents a common, clearly defined routing policy to the Internet", from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_System_Number

Thanks, that helped to clarify things.

Check out http://ipinfo.io too, which has both an uncluttered website and a simple API, eg:

    $ curl ipinfo.io
    {
      "ip": "67.188.232.131",
      "hostname": "c-67-188-232-131.hsd1.ca.comcast.net",
      "city": "Mountain View",
      "region": "California",
      "country": "US",
      "loc": "37.385999999999996,-122.0838",
      "org": "AS7922 Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.",
      "phone": 650
    }

    $ curl ipinfo.io/geo
    {
      "ip": "67.188.232.131",
      "city": "Mountain View",
      "region": "California",
      "country": "US",
      "loc": "37.385999999999996,-122.0838",
      "phone": 650
    }

    $ curl ipinfo.io/org
    AS7922 Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.
    
    $ curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8/org
    AS15169 Google Inc.

More details available at http://ipinfo.io/developers

I find this really disturbing:

http://ipinfo.io/recent

Might not want to display people's data like that.

What's so disturbing about what IPs were looked up on a site?

The only way I find that remotely possibly of any interest is perhaps maybe some of those IPs are slightly more prone to having some sort of public unsecured service. (And uses this API/site to find the public IP.)

Is there an actual legitimate complaint or worry here?

What do you mean by "people's" data? It's information about an IP address that is completely public. You could find it by going to ipinfo.io/<any random IP address>, or by using various tools or other websites to look it up.

It's the recent accesses by those IP addresses as well. Don't be thick.

It's a sample of IPs that have recently been looked up, which doesn't necessarily mean that IP visited the site or used the API.

@prawn (sorry can't reply directly) - interesting, I didn't think this was a big deal at all. Can you explain your reservations?

The page is actually only there for SEO purposes, so that google indexes these IPs without me having to go to the trouble of building a site map. If there's genuine concerns or issues with that page then I'll kill it.

I wouldn't use the service as long as recent look-ups were publicised.

I think he's talking about the recent IP list itself.

I wouldn't say disturbing but it's definitely a negative smudge on an otherwise useful service.

It just looks like search engine spam really - those sort of ones that appear when you search for an IP address in Google

      "loc": "37.385999999999996,-122.0838",

Did a float creep into the storage system at some point?

Erm, looks like it's based in Germany to me:

    $ curl ipinfo.io/`dig +short devnull-as-a-service.com `
    {
      "ip": "213.95.21.200",
      "hostname": "o0.n0q.org",
      "city": null,
      "region": null,
      "country": "DE",
      "loc": "51,9",
      "org": "AS12337 noris network AG"
    }

So the NSA is not only spying on the Germans, they're impersonating them to cover their tracks!

If you look carefully enough, we're all actually NSA sockpuppets.

Da truth, but expect to be hellbanned any minute now.

Also checkout http://ipinfo.io. Details of the API available at http://ipinfo.io/developers

I'm actually working on that right now. You can see a very early (and currently completely free) version at http://snoop.io - would love some feedback!

Very cool! I've been a long time Alfred user but hadn't upgraded to the power pack before. This finally convinced me. I just put together my first workflow (ip details - info at http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/3157-ipinfo-workflow-ip-add...). It's really simple to do and very flexible. I can see myself building more and more of these and them becoming a regular part of my "workflow".

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I bought a copy a few weeks ago. I haven't read much yet, but so far so good.

Yeah I was also quoted a flat fee of $100k, around a couple of weeks ago.

My guess is that is to manipulate all of the app discount sites that scan the app store and report on apps that have recently been discounted. If the developers drop the app to $0.99 then all of those sites will report this as a huge saving, and possibly feature it more prominently as a result (I'm assuming those sites are all automated - and there are a lot of them!)

I am the developer of one of those "discount sites". Well I do not have a site but apps for iOS and OS X that show you the discounts. I filter those things out on the server side in extreme cases and my Mac app allows you to specify your own filter criteria like in iTunes where you can have smart playlists. So for example you could ignore apps where the old price is $999 and the new price is $0.99 or something like that.

http://store-news-app.com/

I think he misread it as Batman