GeoIP information

Fri Sep 25 19:17:58 UTC 2015

On 25 September 2015 at 17:52, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
wrote:

> With a new block it took less than a week.
>
> On Sep 25, 2015 11:36 AM, "Baldur Norddahl" <baldur.norddahl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You will find that it takes years before every site out there updated
>> their
>> copy of whatever geo database they are using.
>>
>
Our original /22 block from RIPE has never had any geo IP issues. Everyone
seems to recognize the country correctly from day 1.

However our transferred blocks from Romania are still have issues a year
later. Every geo IP database knows the correct location. But nothing forces
customers of the database to actually keep their copy updated. So we keep
getting complaints that this or that site is reporting the wrong country.
Some of those sites are big sites that should know better.

It is impossible to hunt down every single e-commerce site out there and
force them to update their geo IP database. A lot of them have no clue what
you are talking about. They either bought a hosted solution, and the tech
guy you really want to talk to is somewhere else. Or they used contractors
to build the system and now it is on auto pilot. Or you simply can't get
through customer support to the tech people that know what geo IP actually
is.

At the end of the day, you are not going to waste too much time trying to
beat clue into the heads of people running some niche site specialising in
selling pink shoes, that refused to take the order from one customer
because their brain dead e-commerce solution believes the customer is
located in the wrong country.

Regards,

Baldur