How easy to "mask" IP location?

[glengara]

Using the DP geolocation tool to check link provenance I came across a surprising amount of "blank" results for one particular site.

Tool seems to work fine and being a cynic I'm assuming the masking is deliberate, so is it easy enough to do?

[martinibuster]

Have you tried querying whois dot sc?

[glengara]

No I didn't, as far as geolocation goes that Whois only mentions domain servers rather than IP.

AFAIK the two don't necessarily correspond, some time ago my host bought a bunch of Dutch IPs and assigned me one, site dropped out of the "Pages from ireland" results until he re-registered them as "Irish".

[martinibuster]

Maybe I'm not understanding what you're after? There is a section called Server Data, and among the data listed is IP Location.

There are optional links (labled W,R,P, D,T) for whois, Reverse Lookup, Ping, DNS Lookup, and Traceroute. I would imagine the IP location and Traceroute data might be of interest, unless I'm misunderstanding what information you're after.

[glengara]

Was looking at the link provenance of a couple of "foreign" sites that are ranking surprisingly well on G.in, both show some Indian links but both also show an unusual amount of blank results.

Thought our friends on the sub-continent might have found an easy way to mask the location of where those links are coming from... :-)