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IP address - locality resolution suggestions

16 points by gregp 19y ago

does anyone have any recommendations for IP address to locality resolution?

epi0Bauqu 19y ago
http://www.maxmind.com http://www.maxmind.com
ztaylor 19y ago
maxmind is great and affordable
- steve 19y ago
  affordable??
  - benhoyt 19y ago
    Yep, we're using it -- I think it was $20 for 20,000 queries. Which for us means 20,000 sign-ups. We're happy to pay 0.1 cent to get a sign-up. :-) And we like their simple "API" -- no icky SOAP, just a GET to a URL.
    - steve 19y ago
      Ah, all this time I thought you had to buy the whole database.
      - gregp 19y ago
        Which service was that specifically?
steve 19y ago
http://www.hostip.info/ http://www.hostip.info/ Good if you're not completely sure of how much geolocation will do for you or you don't want to spend a fortune.
rrival 19y ago
Low end: http://www.ip2location.com/ http://www.ip2location.com/ High end: Akamai (akamai.com) has a ~$10k/month hyper-accurate solution.
dazzawazza 19y ago
http://www.ipligence.com/en/products/ http://www.ipligence.com/en/products/ never used them, just adding it to the list
staunch 19y ago
The Maxmind GeoIP database is what most people are using. It's quite accurate, has good libraries for many languages, but it's proprietary and costs money. (Starting an open source competitor is on my list of fun projects to do)
- tcwc 19y ago
  What about their Open Source version - http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry ? I haven't started using it yet, but they claim it offers only slightly less accuracy with access to all of their libraries.
gregp 19y ago
Anyone have any suggestions on some straight up locality databases (city,state,zip,country, international)?
rms 19y ago
What's so much better about the pay solutions?
- epi0Bauqu 19y ago
  1) Accuracy 2) Integration options
simpleenigma 19y ago
Are you looking for zip code accuracy or just country accuracy? or something in between? If all you want is what country the IP is from then go to http://www.ip2location.com/ http://www.ip2location.com/ and look through the forums. You can find out how to do it yourself. If you need really fine granularity you will need a for pay service.

16 points by gregp 19y ago

does anyone have any recommendations for IP address to locality resolution?

epi0Bauqu 19y ago

http://www.maxmind.com http://www.maxmind.com

ztaylor 19y ago

maxmind is great and affordable

steve 19y ago
affordable??
- benhoyt 19y ago
  Yep, we're using it -- I think it was $20 for 20,000 queries. Which for us means 20,000 sign-ups. We're happy to pay 0.1 cent to get a sign-up. :-) And we like their simple "API" -- no icky SOAP, just a GET to a URL.
  - steve 19y ago
    Ah, all this time I thought you had to buy the whole database.
    - gregp 19y ago
      Which service was that specifically?

steve 19y ago

http://www.hostip.info/ http://www.hostip.info/ Good if you're not completely sure of how much geolocation will do for you or you don't want to spend a fortune.

rrival 19y ago

Low end: http://www.ip2location.com/ http://www.ip2location.com/ High end: Akamai (akamai.com) has a ~$10k/month hyper-accurate solution.

dazzawazza 19y ago

http://www.ipligence.com/en/products/ http://www.ipligence.com/en/products/ never used them, just adding it to the list

staunch 19y ago

The Maxmind GeoIP database is what most people are using. It's quite accurate, has good libraries for many languages, but it's proprietary and costs money. (Starting an open source competitor is on my list of fun projects to do)

tcwc 19y ago
What about their Open Source version - http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry ? I haven't started using it yet, but they claim it offers only slightly less accuracy with access to all of their libraries.

gregp 19y ago

Anyone have any suggestions on some straight up locality databases (city,state,zip,country, international)?

rms 19y ago

What's so much better about the pay solutions?

epi0Bauqu 19y ago
1) Accuracy 2) Integration options

simpleenigma 19y ago

Are you looking for zip code accuracy or just country accuracy? or something in between? If all you want is what country the IP is from then go to http://www.ip2location.com/ http://www.ip2location.com/ and look through the forums. You can find out how to do it yourself. If you need really fine granularity you will need a for pay service.