We recently went through this exercise when we got new subnets off Apnic. Its not much fun. The large commercial websites (ondemand, trademe, tv3, isky) seem to mostly get their geolocation information from the www.maxmind.com database, so first point of call is to check where maxmind currently has your IPs located (ours were recycled from India)
Eg. http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_demo_ip?ips=202.3.89.2
You can try and get Maxmind to update their database by sending an email to corrections(a)maxmind.com, but they are terrible at actioning the corrections and only seem to update the database once a month.
Good luck!
Cameron Bendall
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On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Cameron Bendall < cameron.bendall(a)digitalisland.co.nz> wrote:
You can try and get Maxmind to update their database by sending an email to corrections(a)maxmind.com, but they are terrible at actioning the corrections and only seem to update the database once a month.
Not "seem to" - they do only update it once a month (within the first few days of the month), and openly state this on their website. You can then factor in a few days to a few months for anyone using the database to download and install the new version. In general I've found them very good at making changes, especially if you're very clear about the details (eg, the fact they are assigned to you), especially if the whois data agrees with what you're claiming. Scott
It's worth noting that they have an up to date service which you pay
for,
Either via a webservice (with sample code for most popular languages)
or download.
Maxmind do seem to be the largest source, Google and Google analytics
use them as well.
Gareth Davies
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On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Cameron Bendall
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Gareth Davies
It’s worth noting that they have an up to date service which you pay for, ****
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Either via a webservice (with sample code for most popular languages) or download.
Even with the paid download service it's still a once-a-month update. Their webservice used to be the same, although it's possible that it's changed. Updates are done within the first few days of the month, so updates can take anywhere between a day and a month to occur depending on when you submit them.
Maxmind do seem to be the largest source, Google and Google analytics use them as well.
Google primarily use Quova, along with their own internal data. I think they may use Maxmind for Google Analytics though. Scott.
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