local ip not local?

[cavedog]

This site www.sportstube.co.za is a site that offers free email and sport related stuff. Its pretty strange cause I can't access it with local bandwidth. I know that the site should be hosted in SA to be local but the site resolves to this ip 196.220.52.26 which is hosted in South Africa as per whois of 4 databases. So how can this be? Here is the info I get.

IP address 196.220.52.26
Host atlu0013.glodns.net
Location ZA ZA, South Africa
City -, - -
Organization Web Africa
ISP Web Africa
Latitude 29°00'00" South
Longitude 24°00'00" East
Distance 14308.04 km (8890.61 miles)
% This is the AfriNIC Whois server.

% Note: this output has been filtered.

% Information related to '196.220.32.0 - 196.220.63.255'

inetnum: 196.220.32.0 - 196.220.63.255
netname: WEBAFRICA
descr: Web Africa
country: ZA
org: ORG-DIC1-AFRINIC
admin-c: NOC1-AFRINIC
tech-c: NOC1-AFRINIC
status: ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by: AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower: WA-MNT
source: AFRINIC # Filtered
parent: 196.0.0.0 - 196.255.255.255

organisation: ORG-DIC1-AFRINIC
org-name: Digitnet IT CC
org-type: LIR
address: P O Box 8116
address: Roggebaai 8012
address: Capetown
country: ZA
phone: +27 21 409 7850
fax-no: +27 21 413 1111
e-mail: [email protected]
admin-c: NOC1-AFRINIC
tech-c: WAAD1-AFRINIC
mnt-ref: AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-by: AFRINIC-HM-MNT
source: AFRINIC # Filtered

person: Web Africa Network Operations Center
address: PO Box 8116
Roggebaai
Cape Town
8012
South Africa
phone: +27214097850
fax-no: +27214131111
e-mail: [email protected]
nic-hdl: NOC1-AFRINIC
source: AFRINIC # Filtered


So may I ask why its not local?

 

[texo]

Tracing route to sportstube.co.za [196.220.52.26]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms <1 ms login.router [10.0.0.2]
2 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms dsl-241-0-01.telkomadsl.co.za [41.241.0.1]
3 * 9 ms * 196.43.35.62
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 31 ms 29 ms 29 ms 196.43.33.2
6 30 ms 28 ms 28 ms 196.43.33.5
7 395 ms 393 ms 396 ms ny-ip-dir-globalc-pos-3-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.18.97]
8 398 ms 599 ms 389 ms gi1-5.ccr01.jfk07.atlas.cogentco.com [38.112.18.41]
9 389 ms 389 ms 387 ms te9-1.mpd03.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.2.61]
10 423 ms 418 ms 430 ms te7-3.mpd01.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.3.45]
11 431 ms 432 ms 430 ms te7-3.ccr01.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.24.14]
12 431 ms 429 ms 431 ms gi11-0-0.core01.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.37]
13 371 ms 371 ms 370 ms vl3561.na21.b019158-0.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [38.20.37.58]
14 408 ms 406 ms 406 ms 38.101.225.11
15 420 ms 419 ms 419 ms www.sportstube.co.za [196.220.52.26]

Trace complete.