Thank you all for your feedback, I will continue working on this and make a new post once this project goes live.
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?
#122We do millions of lookups per day. We do not use Maxmind.
Mind to elaborate a little bit on this?
Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
#123I 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…
Contra to the other posters requests for paypal,
I refuse to have a paypal account, and recent changes to how they process payments mean I can't just pay with a cc without having an account.
If you are accepting payments, it might be a good idea to have more than one payment processor.
Especially if paypals notoriously badly timed account suspensions might force a existential crisis for your business.
Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
#124This would be very welcome. Also having SQL load files ready to go would be something that could be very easy to become dependant on and start paying for more frequent updates.
Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
#125Location to Timezone would be of value to me. No IP involved, want to map a Google Places / Location City value ~ to a timezone. Would pay monthly fee.
We offer this at http://geocod.io :)
Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
That still involves Netflix selling a sub-standard product in some countries, no?
I'm not being pedantic about the argument, I just don't see how there's a benefit to any fundamental values if we still allow this delta, but we're picky about what technical means are used to make it happen. I could see an argument that geo-IP databases are often wrong and that's a problem, but that seems like a very different argument.
Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
#127Location to Timezone would be of value to me. No IP involved, want to map a Google Places / Location City value ~ to a timezone. Would pay monthly fee.
We offer this at http://geocod.io :)
I took a look thanks. Pricing seems good, however we have a very international audience. We need to get timezones for geocodes (preferably Google Place IDs) from all over Asia and the Middle East.
How good is your global timezone data? Is it possible to map Google Places (from their places autocomplete form) to a timezone?
Re: Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
#128Have you considered simply contributing to the service at http://www.hostip.info/ ? They seem to be doing what you describe, and have been around long enough to have reasonably good information (in my experience)— I'm sure they would make use of any additional data, or hacking on their backend, which you might provide.