text: why do i get message that im using a computer that is registered out of the country? i was on a website that said i was out of the us it's likely that the site you visited looked up your ip address and decided you were not in the usa...  (you can get an approximete georgaphical lookup from some ip's, but the complexity of routing sometiems makes this very unreliable.) i'd guess the owners of the web site wanted to restrict the information to us consumers, perhaps for legal reasons, maybe because their products/services change from one place to another.