If I visited a website a year ago... is my IP address still tied to it????

Question

Ok, I was wondering if I visited a website like a year ago would the website company or their servers or sumthin have a record of my IP address visiting that website???

I don't want my parents seeing some old websites I've been too. :P

And I'm not talking about clearing history on my computer.... My dad says he could take our IP address and go directly to the website and ask to see if its ever visited the website.... If its been a year is this even possible????

Answer 1

YEAH STOP JERKING OFF TO g*y p**n

Answer 2

I suppose if the website went back through their logs and searched for your ip i guess they could find it, or your Internet Service Provider could also have said information.

Answer 3

No.  No, No, No.   Firstly, your dad obviously doesn't know enough about the Internet and Webmasters--there's no way he can do that.  As a technician working for lawfirms and having to track down IP addresses myself, it's not as easy as "going directly to the website and asking."  IF your IP address was static, which I doubt that it is if it's residential, and it had been static for over a year, then I guess IF someone at whatever website you're concerned about cared about you, then they might keep the record, but I doubt it.  I'm saying that as a webmaster myself.  Individual IP addresses are rarely recorded except where explicitly necessary, and you are usually made aware that your address is being recorded if it's going to be used to track you in the future in the way that you are stating.

don't worry about it.

Answer 4

It depends on how far back the web site administrator keeps logs.  Some keep only for a few days, others never erase them.  It can depend on the volume of traffic the site gets - a high-traffic site would get big logs very fast, so they're likely to empty them more often.

However, your IP has probably changed since a year ago: power outages, internet service outages, etc. could cause you to get a different IP when you reconnect.  (If you're on dial-up, this happens every time you reconnect; if you're on cable/satellite, it happens much less often.)

Also, the website admin probably doesn't have time to respond and/or simply wouldn't respond to such requests unless they were made by an authority (police, etc.) due to possible privacy issues.