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