One pain in the ass part of geolocation is that it takes a company anywhere from 1 - 3 weeks until they push their “update” to their systems.
If these are eyeball customers, that isn’t really acceptable. The geo-ip companies need to find a way to do near-instant updates. -Mike > On Jan 27, 2026, at 18:40, Abdullah DevRel of IPinfo via NANOG > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Please do not lump us with the rest of the industry. We are not the singular > representation of the industry. By methods, operations, and philosophy, we > try to distance ourselves from the faults of the industry. If your customers > are having issues with geolocation, just talk to us. We will investigate. > > We are not the representative of the entire industry. We are not a > "benevolent monopoly", we are in the maybe top 3 IP geolocation providers in > the world, and we are trying our absolute best to have as many interactions > to fix our data.. > > We invested in a massive scale network infrastructure, research program, and > huge data investment just because geofeed-based IP geolocation, which has > been the standard model for the IP geolocation industry, causes so many > headaches for end users. Even with that, we have a support team, social > media, researchers going to conferences, and DevRel responding to user > queries because no matter how much technical and research investment we make, > there will be gaps, so we should be able to respond to user queries and help > out. > > — Abdullah | DevRel, IPinfo > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HMQMBOTCND6TIO7GVA7RGXUAR2MTPWEW/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/JPHL2LF2MH2PERXX7YBUBLMVKESCWRCA/
