Ryan- Geofeeds don’t ‘help’ IPInfo because they ignore them if their measurement platform comes up with a conflicting result.
Anyone who publishes a geofeed has already provided the answers for free. Why should I help a commercial entity clean up the data that they sell when I’ve already done the work to give the answers for nothing? On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 14:48 Ryan Hamel via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: > Geofeeds are automated submissions and corrections, which helps them > regardless. Are you not going to produce and maintain a geofeed, because it > helps for-profit businesses? > > Ryan Hamel > > > > Kind regards, > > Ryan Hamel > ________________________________ > From: Chris Adams via NANOG <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2026 11:38:31 AM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Cc: Chris Adams <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Geofeeds are adversarial — was Re: Geofeeds are good > > Caution: This is an external email and may be malicious. Please take care > when clicking links or opening attachments. > > > Once upon a time, Abdullah DevRel of IPinfo via NANOG < > [email protected]> said: > > Hi Chris, > > > > Thank you for flagging this. You can submit a correction if you want: > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fipinfo.io%2Fcorrections&data=05%7C02%7Cryan%40rkhtech.org%7C8c3fca1e214a4ca61cee08de6d930bb6%7C81c24bb4f9ec4739ba4d25c42594d996%7C0%7C0%7C639068675489912412%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Blw4zlHWpusg7w6jnXookA4YP0h7S5woFaKFz%2BPnyEE%3D&reserved=0 > <https://ipinfo.io/corrections> > > Why should I provide free help for your for-profit service? > -- > Chris Adams <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.nanog.org%2Farchives%2Flist%2Fnanog%40lists.nanog.org%2Fmessage%2F6NP56MG2FOBFYBPV6GIKDKOUGGPNYZ5I%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cryan%40rkhtech.org%7C8c3fca1e214a4ca61cee08de6d930bb6%7C81c24bb4f9ec4739ba4d25c42594d996%7C0%7C0%7C639068675489957338%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LIX%2BVbBEh4pjfIHvvTtYbopxAJ9qv5rTzLTdUbBSjls%3D&reserved=0 > < > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6NP56MG2FOBFYBPV6GIKDKOUGGPNYZ5I/ > > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AYXSXQNWOTO6GYFVRZ2JNH3RTMUNUWQB/ > _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YOEIJQLJ7ZGVFG47ZMXBXF2LCSSOOPI2/
