is one that I used (at least in demo mode), and it is much better than most. But it isn't cheap.
There are more folks out there -- they end up being used by fraud-prevention outfits by filtering out IPs from places with known credit card abuse issues.
I'm using hostip.info for my small project http://newshoured.com/ and it seems to work for nearly everyone I've asked. It's also got a dead simple API. Note: the population of people I've asked is < 20, and it did fail the iPhone test, which I assumed it would.
It really isn't just AOL. I live in east Alabama, and geolocation of my IP almost always puts me in a suburb of Atlanta (except for the few that put me in Miami... not sure what's up with that) because I use an AT&T (Bellsouth) DSL line.
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None of them are very good, at least partly because things are so aggregated through ISPs. For instance, ALL AOL users appear to be in Herndon (?), VA
However:
http://www.hostip.info/
is a free service that relies on its users putting their own data in. A wiki like mechanism, if you will.
http://www.geody.com/geoip.php
appears to work, but I'd worry about their TOS.
http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_ip
is one that I used (at least in demo mode), and it is much better than most. But it isn't cheap.
There are more folks out there -- they end up being used by fraud-prevention outfits by filtering out IPs from places with known credit card abuse issues.
I'm using hostip.info for my small project http://newshoured.com/ and it seems to work for nearly everyone I've asked. It's also got a dead simple API. Note: the population of people I've asked is < 20, and it did fail the iPhone test, which I assumed it would.
I think we can safely assume AOL is no longer an issue. Anyone still using AOL dialup?
>Anyone still using AOL dialup?
You'd be amazed how many people in US are still on AOL. They all use IE and some of them are still on 56K modems.
It really isn't just AOL. I live in east Alabama, and geolocation of my IP almost always puts me in a suburb of Atlanta (except for the few that put me in Miami... not sure what's up with that) because I use an AT&T (Bellsouth) DSL line.