Activity 1 & 2 - Routing in Action/ Who Owns What?

I'm powering through the catch up stuff, so you'll probably notice a multitude of blog entries in the wee hours of this morn.

So, the first activity we're to do for Web 101 is check the routing on popular sites and find their locations.

Google: California

Wikipedia: Florida

Amazon: Florida

Flickr: Sunnyvale, CA

Next, we were asked to find a site that is popular and NOT hosted in US or Aus is bbc.co.uk!

For Activity 2, we needed to investigate who owned what sites:

Flickr is owned by Yahoo

Youtube is owned by Google

Mickey is owned by Melb It Ltd

Gooogle. com is owned by Google and yaho.com is owned by yahoo. Perhaps they have purchased these domains to redirect typo traffic?