Can you provide some contact information? I would like to contribute as well, I find Maxmind extremely unreliable when it comes to Home ISPs.
Shoot me an email at sam.granger@gmail.com and I'll provide you with updates
Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
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Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
#52(Disclaimer: I work for MaxMind) As far as formats go, if anyone is thinking of putting together a custom database with information keyed on IP address or IP ranges, I'd encourage you to look into our MaxMind DB format: http://maxmind.github.io/MaxMind-DB/ There are open source file readers available in many languages: https://github.com/maxmind/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=MaxMind-DB There's also an open source writer http…
Awesome, thanks!
Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
#53Can you provide some contact info? Would like to help adding changes, I personally find Maxmind inaccurate as well.
Shoot me an email at sam.granger@gmail.com and I'll provide you with updates
Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
#54I use GeoIP fairly regularly. How I would set this up: - Free version: only updated once [every 6 months / a year] and non-commercial use only - Paid version: $9.99 for a year of free updates - Updates come both in diff and in full version (for the commercial version) - Use a common format, or use multiple formats. People love csv, but more serious applications probably use an existing format (I see maxmind a lot in…
I haven't thought about making this a for-profit project yet. Maybe a paid API in the future, but I really want to offer an accurate & free option that's up to date.
Re: CC's, I'm also based in Europe (The Netherlands) and also hate services that only allow credit cards.
Thanks for the link regarding diffs, I'll definitely give it a read.
Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
#55There seems to be heavy interest in a low-cost service, even free if it was sustainable. Just curious if anyone has seen innovative pricing around services, similar to how open-source software made expensive software much cheaper or free, where the vendor made the main "service/data" much less expensive but monetized in a different way.
So what I'm envisioning are services designed for zero profit. Prices are indexed to AWS/Azure/Google prices; as they fall, the service's prices falls. Customers who need predictable pricing can buy long term contracts, as they do on AWS. Customers who use the service more, pay more, because the service offers utility-based pricing. The goal is to make the service as cheap as possible and maintained by the community. The source code and all data, except private data (e.g., API keys), is open and editable by the community.
Think it would be an interesting way to deliver services and data, just not sure how it turns into a business (since the API/service portion is designed to be zero profit).
Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
#56Id be interested, especially if it used same file format as Maxmind's binary dat file ... so it can be a drop in replacement.
Added to the list! ;)
Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
#57I'm not sure I want a free alternative. I want an inexpensive option that I'm pretty sure won't get acquired and shutdown, but also has reasonable enough revenue to remain in business, occasionally blessing me with new features. A free service like locationkit (seen here a few days ago IIRC) looks OK, and I'm reasonably sure it's supported by revenues for other services from the parent company. However, even that fee…
> $5-$20/year
That seems to be way too low.
$20/month+ could make sense, but less than that should be simply free (limited edition).
Dealing with payments is just too much overhead.
Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
#58I've been building exactly this:
I have a JS library coming also for use when the w3c geolocation fails. The data is open and downloadable with cities etc (CSV right now). There's a mailing list for updates, and anyone can contribute just by opening the website in a browser!
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#59That would be amazing. I'd love a datadump that could be accessed on my own servers instead of having to hit an API. The format of the datadump doesn't really matter to me, as long as there's documentation on how to read it.
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Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
#60I'm not sure I want a free alternative. I want an inexpensive option that I'm pretty sure won't get acquired and shutdown, but also has reasonable enough revenue to remain in business, occasionally blessing me with new features. A free service like locationkit (seen here a few days ago IIRC) looks OK, and I'm reasonably sure it's supported by revenues for other services from the parent company. However, even that fee…
> $5-$20/year That seems to be way too low. $20/month+ could make sense, but less than that should be simply free (limited edition). Dealing with payments is just too much overhead.
maxmind already does something like this, although you're just buying credits. twilio does the same thing. Other mail services i've used do credits as well. For my projects/demos/etc - $20/year is where I'm at with twilio (which has led to clients using it and spending hundreds or thousands more, minimum).
With maxmind, $10/year might be all that I use (considering 1000 calls might only be $1 charge).