Originally Posted by Ron Bennett

TheSaint- Why call a remote site to determine one's own IP address? Just grab the environment from PHP and you'll have the machine's IP and a lot more ... quick, easy, and with no dependence on a remote website.

Or does whatismyip.com do something else that I'm missing ...

Ron

p.s. the buyer, especially if they paid that much, should definitely try to acquire whatsmyip.com (note the missing i), since it's likey a common typo variation.