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Domain routing possible?

Hi,
I don't quite know how to phrase this question, but is it possible to route visitors to a domain by the their location? Like could visitors to say the weather.com domain be auto forwarded to a local weather page depending on their ISP location? or what?

Thanks

Henry
 
It's certainly possible, but I don't know how to do it, and I don't know how accurate it will be.

For example, at work I am directed to Google.de, because my company's proxy is located in Germany. However, AFAIK it can't be localised to specific regions of Germany.
 
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its possible to redirect based on country IP but not dedicated location such as county, tho it wont help those few who have american ips like aol gives out occasionally
 
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Just to add, geo-location routing (as I term it) can also cost money, such services usually require access to a special IP database that does the hard work for you and this can then be used to setup redirects. Generally speaking it's a nice thing to have for ease of us but if you make a good index page with location options then most visitors are usually savvy enough to make the choice for themselves.

It should be noted that auto-redirection like this can also cause frustration, such as when a website in the USA redirects you to its UK division yet you might actually want to visit its USA one specifically. Few systems are that agressive though.
 
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