Why not use top-level country codes (like .uk) to determine the location of a machine?
Actaully, country codes are no longer a good indication of the physical location of a machine in many cases. As an example, Register.Com allows people worldwide to register domains with country codes .uk (United Kingdom), .ro (Romania), .ms (Montserrat), .il (Israel), .sh (St. Helena), .gs (South Georgia), .vg (British Virgin Islands), .nz (New Zealand), .fm (Micronesia), .to (Tonga), .tf, .as (American Samoa), .dk (Denmark), .lt (Lithuania), .kz (Kazakhstan), .tc (Turks & Cairn Islands), .md (Moldova), .ly (Libya), .ac (Ascension Island), .za (South Africa), .ky (Cayman Islands), and .ws (Samoa), without regard to where the machines hosting these domains will be located. Note that I’m not affiliated with register.com in anyway and link to them for example purposes only. I don’t even register my domains through them (GoDaddy.Com is cheaper, though I’m not affiliated with them either!). 1.8. Is pattern-matching and code conversion the best way to find the locations of Internet-connected
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