We have exciting news to share! Today we launched our Free IP Dataset on Google Cloud Platform. We’re the first IP address data provider to offer datasets on Google Cloud Marketplace, filling a significant data enrichment gap for users on this platform. What to expect from the free IP data in the Marketplace IPinfo’s IP to Country and ASN data enables organizations to drive innovation by combining these insights with GCP services and thousands of unique datasets provided by Google, commercial data providers, or other partners. With this data, subscribers can also expect an increased return on ..read more

NGINX (pronounced "engine-x") is a popular open-source web server, reverse proxy server, and load balancer. It is known for its high performance, scalability, and efficiency, making it a popular choice for serving web content and optimizing resource utilization. In this tutorial, we will create an NGINX web server serving a static webpage and integrate IPinfo’s IP databases for IP-based intelligence capabilities. IPinfo’s IP database can provide an extended set of features and controls with NGINX, for example: Load Balancing: NGINX can use IPinfo’s geolocation data to implement enhanced load ..read more

We launched our very first hackathon event in October, IPinfo IP Hunt. With IPinfo reaching its 10th birthday last year, launching our free IP databases and launching our freshly updated app (iOS and Android app), we wanted an opportunity to personally say “Thank you” to the developers who have been using our API. We have been supporting developers worldwide with our accurate IP insights for years, and we wanted this event to truly celebrate what binds our entire developer community in one unifying idea: “IP Address”. How did the idea come to be? We wanted to do something special; we didn't w ..read more

In 2023, IPinfo celebrated its tenth year of helping application builders, businesses, and security professionals make their apps more intelligent. The traditional gift for a tenth anniversary is tin, which can be polished to a high sheen and can prevent underlying layers from corrosion. This is appropriate for IPinfo since our data helps turn all manner of data into a rich source of analytics and empowers companies to make smarter decisions to prevent fraud and abuse. In this season of celebration, we pause to take stock of our accomplishments over the past twelve months, and we have so much ..read more

We at IPinfo are very excited to announce our first community “huntathon” event: The Great IP Hunt. This event celebrates the idea of learning about IP address geolocation in a fun and engaging way. You can run around and collect unique IP addresses, hunt their IP geolocation using our brand-new IPinfo apps (Android and iOS), and submit them to win daily prizes. How to get started? Our hackathon is open to all, and entry is simple. Here’s how to participate: Step 1: Download the IPinfo app This is how you will find and submit IPs. Our app is available in both iOS and Android versions. Apple ..read more

In today's digital landscape, extracting IP address meta-information, such as the geographic origins of online activities, identifying anonymous IP addresses, and retrieving network-level metadata from IP, has a wide range of applications. Whether it's to enhance user experience, bolster cybersecurity measures, or add sales and marketing intelligence data, IPinfo's IP data unlocks a new dimension of insight. In this blog post, we will dive into the seamless integration of IPinfo's powerful API and data download services with the Java programming language. Discover how leveraging IPinfo's data ..read more

IP data empowers identity management policies and access management regulations. Organizations like Permit.io - a leading plug-and-play app-level authorization platform, enable users to implement IP address data in their platform to enforce frontend or backend control with no code. ? “Being aware of a user’s geolocation or their connection to a VPN can be baked into an ABAC policy. When it comes to audit logs, having information about where a login was geolocated is very helpful for investigating access incidents later. ” - Or Weiss, Founder and CEO of Permit.io Based on our conversations w ..read more

We’re joining Oort and Snowflake for a webinar on July 12, 2023! The webinar focuses on how security platforms can improve data usability and efficiency for their teams. Oort turned to Snowflake Marketplace to discover, try, and purchase data to integrate into their existing workflow. They seamlessly access IPinfo’s data to visually present potential security threats to their customers. These datasets include IP to Geolocation, Privacy Detection, and ASN data. Oort and IPinfo will discuss how Snowflake makes third-party data sources easy to ingest, creating more value within applications for ..read more

At IPinfo, a question we get asked quite often is how accurate our data is. It's a straightforward question, really. You make an API call using IPinfo's services or download our database, provide your input IP address, and somehow you're magically presented with the city and country geolocation information and even granular information such as zip code and geographic coordinates. But how does it all work? We also believe in transparency and accuracy. We want our users to understand how we provide the data and its accuracy. By walking you through our methodology, we aim to give you a more soli ..read more

We have exciting news for Snowflake users! Today IPinfo launched the free IP to Country and ASN data on Snowflake Marketplace. The new free datasets require near-zero maintenance due to an IP range aggregation on the joined database, which optimizes these listings for even faster queries. IPinfo’s engineering team has optimized join times with Snowflake’s powerful UDTFs, reducing query times from 14 minutes to less than 30 seconds for all IPinfo proprietary datasets. Additionally, IPinfo will launch a new UDFs and UDTFs solution that immediately makes this new database functional with very li ..read more