Digital products are delivered to a client computer through a wide area
network such as the Internet only upon determination that the client
computer is located in a geopolitical territory, such as a country or
state, for which delivery of the digital product is authorized. A server
computer estimates the geopolitical location of the client computer from
the client computer's network address through contact information in a
network address allocation database. Alternatively, the server computer
estimates the geopolitical location of the client computer from the
client computer's custom name, e.g., domain name. The domain name itself
can specify a country within which the client computer is located. Such
can be conventional or can be parse according to ad hoc patterns
developed by large, international organizations identified by a root
domain name. In addition, contact information for the domain name can be
retrieved and geopolitical territory information parsed from the contact
information. A super-classification of the domain name can indicate a
geopolitical territory. Records associating geopolitical territories with
network address ranges are stored in such a manner that maximizes
resolution within a cache of such records, perhaps at the expense of
reduce efficiency but so as to maximum currency and accuracy.