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Looking for a Reliable IP DB Provider

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:41 am
by bsullivan
Hello Everyone,

My company is looking to use geo-location to offer localized content to our European and Asian users. I would like to find a reliable vendor for an IP lookup list that offers a fair amount of accuracy and was wondering if anyone on the form could make a recomendation.

Thank you in advance!

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:52 pm
by a94060
would the whois service work? thats all i can think of. or just use the whois() in php.

Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:55 am
by bsullivan
Unfortunatly, Whois is not really fast enough or accurate enought for us. We are trying to achieve an accuracy rate of 93-100% accuracy while serving 200,000 unique users a day.

I think we have opted for MaxMind for the time being. Anyone intrested can have a look at there site:

http://www.maxmind.com/app/country

There are not a lot of options out there, so it will be intresting to see if this product meets our needs or not.

Thanks to everyone for there help.

Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:03 am
by feyd
the PHP group uses Directi which seems very accurate from the posts I've seen around here..