Where can I find an IP database for domains registered in the US?  Further,
is there any software you are aware of that converts a domain name to
an IP address?  If so, where can I find it?

Hi, 

Both of your questions are answered by the simple program Ping. Using
your command line in windows, type the command

ping google.com

and ping will respond with the name of the server from the DNS lookup.

A DNS server is a database that matches up Domain Names and IP
addresses.
http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/

but you won't have to worry much about that using Ping. 

You may also be interested in this site. 
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm

Because of security these days, some domains may not respond to a
ping. You will however still get the DNS lookup which will show the
name or the IP depending on which you used to do the ping command.


Thanks, 

webadept-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by hummer49-ga on 25 Feb 2003 14:24 PST

Hello.....

I would like further clarification on your answer....I didn't ask how
to find a singular IP address....my question specifically, was where
can I find a database of ALL of the IP ranges in the US.  I'm just
looking for a plain text file of all IP's in the US/World....they
appear thusly:

'US-Road_Runner 204.210.0.0 - 204.210.255.255'
'US-Road_Runner 204.210.0.0 - 204.210.255.255'
'US-Road_Runner 24.129.128.0 - 24.129.191.255'
'US-Road_Runner 24.160.0.0 - 24.170.127.255'

'Philippines 202.47.0.0 - 202.47.15.255'
'Philippines 202.47.125.0 - 202.47.141.255'
'Philippines 202.56.96.0 - 202.56.127.255'
'Philippines 202.57.32.0 - 202.57.127.255'

'Russia 212.44.128.0 - 212.44.159.255'
'Russia 212.44.64.0 - 212.44.95.255'
'Russia 212.45.0.0 - 212.45.31.255'
'Russia 212.46.0.0 - 212.46.31.255'

Thank you.

Michael Kelly

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Clarification of Answer by webadept-ga on 28 Feb 2003 07:29 PST

Hi, 

Your question expired some time ago but I did find this package at a
decent price that will give you what you are looking for.

http://www.location.com.my/products.asp


Thanks, 

webadept-ga

you can also try the nslookup command 
nslookup google.com ..this will return the IP address
of the server on which google is hosted.
the nslookup works either way i.e. 
nslookup 64.58.76.222 will return the domain name 
registered for this IP(which for above IP is yahoo.)