[HN Gopher] IPinfo started offering free unlimited country-level...
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       IPinfo started offering free unlimited country-level geolocation
       and ASN details
        
       Author : tnr23
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2025-05-08 16:36 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (ipinfo.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (ipinfo.io)
        
       | reincoder wrote:
       | Awesome, thank you very much for posting the announcement on HN.
       | We really appreciate it!
        
       | tallytarik wrote:
       | If you need more than country level data, these folks become very
       | expensive very quickly.
       | 
       | Many providers are orders of magnitude cheaper. I run one of them
       | - https://iplocate.io - but there are plenty of other high
       | quality and affordable services.
        
         | tiffanyh wrote:
         | Just curious, what do companies typically use as the source for
         | such data?
        
           | ignoramous wrote:
           | _How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch_ ,
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507355 (2023).
        
         | Nyr wrote:
         | They are not the cheapest, but most often will be one of the
         | most accurate thanks to their latency triangulation.
        
           | tallytarik wrote:
           | We and many others use the same techniques too. This is a
           | concept introduced 20 years ago, and RIPE Atlas/IPmap has
           | been a public implementation of this idea for the last decade
           | or so.
           | 
           | (However, the vast majority of IPs can't be geolocated in
           | this way, and there are caveats to those that can be.)
           | 
           | In any case, the difficulty with all providers in this space
           | is how you prove accuracy at scale. If we assume some
           | provider has some proprietary technique that nets 100%
           | accuracy, that's great, but what do you compare it to? There
           | is no ground truth data source - we are supposed to be that.
           | 
           | Marketing plays a big role, and admittedly, these guys have
           | much better marketing on this point :)
        
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