[Nathanyel]

A hostname is a label that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network and that is used to identify the device in various forms of electronic communication such as the World Wide Web, e-mail or Usenet. Hostnames may be simple names consisting of a single word or phrase, or they may have appended the name of a Domain Name System (DNS) domain, separated from the host specific label by a period (dot). In the latter form, a hostname is also called a domain name. If the domain name is completely specified including a top-level domain of the Internet, the hostname is said to be a fully qualified domain name (FQDN).

So you type my web address into a reverse hostname look up - you are going to get an IP address you can plug into a geolocation service. It puts you in VA ( :!: ) Well now that proves along with you can't exactly find someone, but it's also incorrect some percentage of the time.

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HOWEVER - despite a reverse hostname service being toooootally useless for what someone is trying to accomplish there is a much much less known about method that can on occasion actually find someone. It's called a 'whois' service. They are provided free and do some trickery with DNS queries.

http://www.whois.net/whois/treetopcasino.info
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Now that could be some potentially revealing information, but I'm going to assume that 99% of the people in this world do not privately own or operate their own web server out of home, and do not require a private domain name pointing to the address they live at.

Fun fact: that's out of date, and I've moved since then to closer to college. I won't be updating that information - ever -. Back to square one and my exact address is still relatively private. Would probably be easier to just ask me if you felt the need to threaten me over the internet. I'm cocky enough to tell you.

Feel free to shut me up though with an example showing where I live and how you did it with my IP address/hostname