Re: how to fix incorrect GeoIP data?

From: Christopher Morrow (no email)
Date: Fri May 01 2009 - 16:29:56 EDT

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    On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <> 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?


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