NET11 Topic 1.1 Activities

Routing in Action!
Sounds fun doesn't it.  In this activity we used this site to see a visual representation of data leaving my computer and making it's way to a  remote location.  We looked up the location of some well known websites:
wikipedia.org are located in St Petersburg, Florida USA
amazon.com are located somewhere in California (or that's as close as the trace could get)
flickr.com are located at Sunnyvale, California USA

Finding a popular website that is not located in the USA sounds easy...

seek.com.au is located in Australia.

Who Owns What?
I found that you can discover the name of the person or corporation that owns every domain name using this site.
Interestingly gooogle.com is owned by Google and yaho.com is owned by Yahoo.  I suppose this is so no-one can set up sites that people accidentally get to by making a spelling or typing error.