how can you verify that the site you get is not a fake?

[bruce]

hi..

if i go to a site, how can i verify that the site that's displayed is really
the 'correct' site. is there a way to actually 'get' the ip address, and
then to determine if that ip address actually matches up to the 'owner' of
the site i'm looking at....

any thoughts/ideas/etc...

thanks

bruce
bedouglas at earthlink.net