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Some businesses just have no reason to interact with certain IP sets. For example if you are running a SaaS website which only caters to customers in the US wh

Some businesses just have no reason to interact with certain IP sets. For example if you are running a SaaS website which only caters to customers in the US what is the advantage of letting IPs from China or Russia access your service? Those IPs are not going to utilize your service because you don’t offer services outside of the US; since the IPs cannot be used for legitimate actions they can therefore only be used for illegitimate actions and should be blocked.

fathyb 4y ago
A B2B SaaS is very likely to have US based customers with employees working remotely from all over the world, either temporarily or permanently.
- decremental 4y ago
  Most US businesses don't have employees outside the US and you probably aren't catering to the ones that do.
  - AnimalMuppet 4y ago
    Personally, I wouldn't deliberately signal "I'm too small time for you Fortune 500 outfits to bother with". But even if you don't mind doing so... Our company didn't have any outside-the-US employees - until we did. We hired one remote in Canada, and we hired some contractors in the Philippines and Portugal. So you're creating a situation where either you have to fix your ability to let people connect from outside the US right now (with all the security issues that may cause, which you also have to fix right now), or else you lose a customer each time something like that happens.
- scrose 4y ago
  Chances are they won’t block IPs in the countries they have employees, and/or they’ll require a VPN for them. I’m honestly a bit surprised to see so many people attempting to counter the idea that some businesses don’t need to be accessible from every region in the world.
  - brodock 4y ago
    if you have an ecommerce and you block acceas from countries where you dont do business, you are making every expat life miserable. just imagine for a moment people may want to send gifts for their loved ones.
    - scrose 4y ago
      I’m sure everyone on this site can come up with reasons why some online businesses should support a worldwide audience. That does not mean every online business needs to set out to support the entire world when it makes no sense for them or 99.999%+ of their legitimate users.
viraptor 4y ago
People travel. This kind of approach is not uncommon and so annoying. Like Vodafone which didn't let me access the right country's version of their page to pay my bill while abroad. And Ing which listed only the local app in play store - couldn't download the Australian version in the UK. That's literally being hostile to your customers where they may be under more pressure than normal to resolve whatever they're trying to achieve.
- spoils19 4y ago
  Why would a God-honoring American want to travel overseas in the first place? We have more natural wonders, more freedom and equality than any other country in the world. We're also unique in that we're the only nation to be a melting pot of different cultures, so you can literally find anywhere in the world in the USA.

fathyb 4y ago

A B2B SaaS is very likely to have US based customers with employees working remotely from all over the world, either temporarily or permanently.

decremental 4y ago
Most US businesses don't have employees outside the US and you probably aren't catering to the ones that do.
- AnimalMuppet 4y ago
  Personally, I wouldn't deliberately signal "I'm too small time for you Fortune 500 outfits to bother with". But even if you don't mind doing so... Our company didn't have any outside-the-US employees - until we did. We hired one remote in Canada, and we hired some contractors in the Philippines and Portugal. So you're creating a situation where either you have to fix your ability to let people connect from outside the US right now (with all the security issues that may cause, which you also have to fix right now), or else you lose a customer each time something like that happens.
scrose 4y ago
Chances are they won’t block IPs in the countries they have employees, and/or they’ll require a VPN for them. I’m honestly a bit surprised to see so many people attempting to counter the idea that some businesses don’t need to be accessible from every region in the world.
- brodock 4y ago
  if you have an ecommerce and you block acceas from countries where you dont do business, you are making every expat life miserable. just imagine for a moment people may want to send gifts for their loved ones.
  - scrose 4y ago
    I’m sure everyone on this site can come up with reasons why some online businesses should support a worldwide audience. That does not mean every online business needs to set out to support the entire world when it makes no sense for them or 99.999%+ of their legitimate users.

viraptor 4y ago

People travel. This kind of approach is not uncommon and so annoying. Like Vodafone which didn't let me access the right country's version of their page to pay my bill while abroad. And Ing which listed only the local app in play store - couldn't download the Australian version in the UK. That's literally being hostile to your customers where they may be under more pressure than normal to resolve whatever they're trying to achieve.

spoils19 4y ago
Why would a God-honoring American want to travel overseas in the first place? We have more natural wonders, more freedom and equality than any other country in the world. We're also unique in that we're the only nation to be a melting pot of different cultures, so you can literally find anywhere in the world in the USA.