Tracing terror videos on the Net

Tracing the IP address
The IP addresses mentioned in these WHOIS details, refers to the server that Internet users are directed to when they enter the domain names iaisite.net and iaisite.org.

We can see that both these servers are located in the USA. The iaisite.net domain, for example, uses an IP address owned by a company called Inktomi.

Similarly iaisite.org uses an IP address owned by a company called Performance Systems.

Does this mean that Inktomi and Performance Systems are seditious fifth columnists, undermining the USA from underground lairs in Sunnyvale, California and Washington, DC?

No. Both Inktomi and Performance Systems are international corporations that anyone can use to buy domain names. Inktomi is owned by Yahoo!

Iaisite shares its Inktomi & Performance Systems IP addresses with hundreds of thousands of other domains covering anything from motor racing to business management. 

With millions of customers on their books, I wonder if either company knows they are part of the chain that brings Al-Jaysh al-Islami's videos to the wider public. I wonder if they can practically stop such activity or whether the US constitution and legal system would impel them to. 

Certainly, both corporations would be able to provide valuable information to authorities wanting to identify those connected to Iaisite. The registrants might have listed peripheral (or even mythical) contacts in the WHOIS details, but they would have paid for their Internet services by credit card. 

Despite their IP addresses being tied into the Iaisite domains, neither Inktomi nor Performance Systems actually host the page the black Web page that comes up when you type iaisite.net or iaisite.org into a browser.

This page is stored on a computer belonging to a third USA based Internet company.  

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Please note, the layout of some screengrabs in this tutorial have been altered for reasons of clarity, space and explanation. The hosting details are accurate at the time this report was written (February 2006) but may change at a later date. We do not suppose or allege that any of the sites or services mentioned in this report are connected with illegal activity.