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Jeffrey Schoemaker 408 posts 2138 karma points MVP 8x c-trib

Sep 09, 2015 @ 07:51

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Geo IP locator - Anyone any experience?

Hi,

I've been looking for a good IP to location-database/API for some of my sites (determine based on IP, whether you should initially go to the US, Dutch or German site).

I don't have any experience with these databases/webservices, and I hope someone has some input.

Right now I'm looking at https://www.maxmind.com/ and https://db-ip.com/.

Does anybody know which one http://installs.umbraco.io/ is using?

Thanks in advance, Jeffrey

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Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib

Sep 09, 2015 @ 08:28

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Hi Jeffrey,

I've used MaxMind's GeoLite2 (free) database on several projects, which works pretty well.

http://maxmind.github.io/GeoIP2-dotnet/

I've used the data on this website to verify/unit-test the accuracy of the IP addresses: http://www.nirsoft.net/countryip/
(Unfortunately I can't vouch for the accuracy of that data) :-(

Cheers,
- Lee

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Jeffrey Schoemaker 408 posts 2138 karma points MVP 8x c-trib

Sep 09, 2015 @ 09:47

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Thanks, Lee!

That's a really good idea to verify it against another service :)!

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Niels Hartvig 1951 posts 2391 karma points c-trib

Sep 09, 2015 @ 10:44

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We're using Maxmind (GeoIP2 City) as well and the results seems legit.

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Jeffrey Schoemaker 408 posts 2138 karma points MVP 8x c-trib

Sep 09, 2015 @ 10:53

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Cool, thanks!

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