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incolumitas

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About incolumitas

I am a blogger and publish my work here: https://incolumitas.com/

I am working on a IP Address API: https://ipapi.is/

You can access the API with: https://api.ipapi.is/

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    Most people say that IP Geolocation is mere guesswork. In this study I wanted to find out how good various different geolocation providers rank when being compared with real GPS lo…

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    Comment #45923656

    they know that because they are using tools such as https://ipapi.is/ it's not hard to infer location data from IP addresses, albeit it's not necessarily an exact science

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    Comment #42308034

    If you want another simple tool that is much more advanced, try out https://ipapi.is/

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    Comment #42307982

    Your product looks very good. I am the creator of https://ipapi.is/ and already some time in the niche. I also have my own IP Geolocation Database as described here: https://ipapi.…

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    Comment #40284765

    I recently wrote a large article on IP geolocation and it turns out that the main source for IP geolocation is still WHOIS data: https://ipapi.is/geolocation.html

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    Comment #39923761

    There are tools such as https://ipapi.is/ that can be used to geolocate any IPv4 and IPv6 address in the world. Sometimes those tools are not extremely accurate, but usually they a…

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    Comment #39754343

    And IP geolocation is still very relevant as of today. You can derive an enormous amount of geolocation data by looking at WHOIS data: https://ipapi.is/geolocation.html

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    the last one is not vague, it is clearly a hosting provider: https://www.instagram.com/atomohost/?hl=en But I picked just one faulty classification of ipinfo.io, that's not fair, I…

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    Comment #39329622

    In general ipinfo.io has the best data and the best product out there in the IP API niche. It is what it is. Your data is the most accurate and most updated. Hosting detection is a…

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    Comment #39328128

    In case anyone needs a all around good IP api with excellent threat intelligence that is not that expensive as IPinfo is, I suggest to use https://ipapi.is/ https://ipapi.is/ is no…

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    Comment #39274346

    Another alternative to obtain WHOIS data over an free API would be https://ipapi.is/

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    Comment #37524789

    Original Poster here. If you hate their pricing, then you should join https://ipapi.is/ I have more competitive pricing and all my pricing plans include the full API output. See fo…

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    Comment #37516298

    LACNIC is a fucking pain in the ass since they block after like 27 records ARIN is awesome

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    Comment #37509599

    Big fan of what articles? On https://incolumitas.com/ or on https://ipapi.is/ ? Great idea with latency triangulation, I used latency information for a lot of things, especially VP…

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    Comment #37508131

    Many service providers actually want their clients to be able to locate them.