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Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

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honest opinion: I hate geoip. I think judging your visitors from their geolocation is more and more becoming a problem. It goes against the fundamental value of the Internet being a global network. I don't want Netflix to sell a sub-standard product in some countries because some licensing foo. I want everyone on this planet to have access to the same Internet. If I could I would redesign internet routing in a way th…

> I don't want Netflix to sell a sub-standard product in some countries because some licensing foo.

"some licensing foo" is a great way of eliding that in some countries, the service would be illegal. The alternative is that the product could not exist at all, if there is no way to negotiate a contract for it.

You can certainly argue that products should not exist if that would involve contradicting some abstract ideal for society, or that it's good for things on the internet to blatantly violate mundane real-world laws until real-world governments become irrelevant. Respectable people hold both of those positions. But they're not very widely-accepted positions.

Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

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post #42
post #34

On a related note, would anyone in the community be interested in an inexpensive service that differentiates dynamic from static IPs? Dynamic IPs would be accompanied by an estimate of lease duration.

I wouldn't want this to exist because it discriminates my dynamic-looking IP address from server IP addresses (even though mine is statically assigned to my Internet subscription) and I have enough trouble hosting things at home already. But I understand that's not really an argument: you might say you don't want nukes to exist because they hurt people. I just wanted to mention it. That said, maybe. Usually an rdns l…

Yeah rDNS is helpful, but as you pointed out with your home IP, many dynamic IPs (those that are rotated by an ISP) are actually granted very long leases. The service I'm proposing would make an additional effort to estimate the duration of dynamic leases.

Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

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post #71

It shouldn't be free, it should be reasonably priced so you don't run out of money and can keep this thing running for years to come. There's huge demand for it - just search for geoip on Github. Some more pointers are here [0],[1]. So many projects, but most of them work with Maxmind data, which is the problem. Inconsistencies in the data they provide makes it painful to make performant fallback solutions. Performan…

ip-api guy here. > It seems none of these services is deployed across the globe Our free service has servers in USA, EU and Asia > There's a need for a blazing fast, reliable service with granular, comprehensive data, that is performing well for millions of requests across the globe, be it for mobile or web traffic. We have more than 2 billion requests per month!

Thanks for your reply. I'll send you a mail with some questions in the next 48 hours.

Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

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post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is paying with credit cards hard for Europeans?

Because the majority don't have/want credit cards.

Oh, you mean you mostly use non-VISA/MC debit cards like we do in Canada? (we have Interac)

Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

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post #81
post #65

honest opinion: I hate geoip. I think judging your visitors from their geolocation is more and more becoming a problem. It goes against the fundamental value of the Internet being a global network. I don't want Netflix to sell a sub-standard product in some countries because some licensing foo. I want everyone on this planet to have access to the same Internet. If I could I would redesign internet routing in a way th…

> I don't want Netflix to sell a sub-standard product in some countries because some licensing foo. "some licensing foo" is a great way of eliding that in some countries, the service would be illegal . The alternative is that the product could not exist at all, if there is no way to negotiate a contract for it. You can certainly argue that products should not exist if that would involve contradicting some abstract id…

Presume a hypothetical world where everybody's traffic is onion-routed, or at least VPNed. Streaming-content licensing would still happen in such a world—the location-enforcement would just have to happen by other means, like account phone-number verification.

Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

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You seem to be solving a very sought after problem which also makes it so much more difficult. Where do you plan to source this much info? Can somebody make me understand why ipv4 assignments along with their requests are not made public?

> Can somebody make me understand why ipv4 assignments along with their requests are not made public?

What do you mean? With any of the RIR's you can get it down to a specific company. With ARIN, you're supposed to be able to get it down to a particular customer. What more information do you want?

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