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ARIN: American Registry for Internet Numbers ARIN is a non-profit membership organization established for the purpose of the administration and registration of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses in the geographical areas previously managed by Network Solutions, Inc. Those areas include North America, South America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. The ARIN database will tell you who is responsible for a particular IP address. Many people use it to try to track down the internet service provider of spammers or fraudulant orders. Note, that ARIN does not control all of the IP address in the world and as such not all IP addresses will be available in an ARIN search. For instance, RIPE is the European & Asian counter-part to ARIN (IP numbers to Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia).

WhoIS: A searchable database maintained by registries and registrars that contains information about domain name registrations in the com, net, org, edu, and ISO 3166 country code top-level domains. Also, the protocol, or set of rules, that describes the application used to access the database. If you own a domain name chances are you are in the database. This informaiton is publically available and often used by spammers to gather email addresses. If you wish to "hide" your WhoIS information many domain name registrars like RegiSite offer an Identity Protection service.

Ping: A utility used to determine whether a particular computer is currently connected to the Internet, the time it tikes to make the request and if there was any packet loss. It works by sending a packet to the specified IP address and waiting for a reply. Each line in your request actually performes 3 tests and then summerizes the average times. It is often used to determine latency/speed/packet loss of a particular connection. Unfortunately, many factors can influence the these times and as such are not always 100% accurate in determinning the latency. For instance, some firewalls/routers may prohibit ping requests, prioritize ping packets so that they receive less attention or simply be malfunctioning causing packet loss. Additionally, many people use a ping test to see if their website is "up". This too is somewhat incorrect, since the device (server) in which your website is hosted may respond to a request but the website is not actually functioning. This is due to the fact that pings operate on a different protocal than HTTP.

IP Location: This type of lookup perfoms a geographical search on an IP address. It will return the country, state and city of where an IP has been allocated and presumably the location of the user. It is not 100% accurate due to the ability for ISP's to re-assign and allocate a set of IP addresses to another party. Furthermore, the use of proxy servers will reduce the accuracy. For instance, AOL users will all appear to be from Virgina. It is likely to most accurate at the country level.

Credits: Portions of the definitions above were gathered using Google's "Dictionary" Search.