On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swm...@swm.pp.se> wrote: > On Fri, 1 May 2009, Frank Bulk wrote: > >> What we need is a "master update" form where Akamai, Google, Maxmind, >> hostip.info, Geobytes, ip2location, ipgeo, etc can be notified about >> changes. > > Perhaps we as the ISP community need to realise that we need to somehow > publish this data (town or something alike) via some kind of standardized > API?
hey lookie! dns TXT records!! :) > Right now I guess they use tracking cookies together with e-commerce account > registration to deduct where an IP is from? there are probably many ways to do this, sure... but if there were a standard API that was updated and accurate it might make things simpler for all involved, eh?