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by meritt 2981 days ago
I've always had good luck with Maxmind's local database [1] offering. It bewilders me how many companies today create SaaS offerings and refuse to offer on-prem versions. It's like they intentionally want to avoid customers with serious needs (speed and security being the most common need for on-prem) who are willing to pay serious amounts of money.

[1] https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-databases

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Let's say it like this:

- https://api.ipdata.co/1.1.1.1

City name: Research

- https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-precision-demo?ip=1.1.1.1

City name: Research

Oh, that must be a very coincidence.

Nuh nuh nuh, nobody would ever want to launch a SaaS with a database they have stolen.

They aren't using a copy of Maxminds DB, see:

https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-precision-demo?ip=185.10.6... (No data)

https://api.ipdata.co/185.10.68.114 (lots of data)

I wonder if Maxmind have put in some "Trap Streets" in their dataset. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street