WorldIP - IP Geolocation, Internet Research

Opera browser users are able to go online through a special proxy server of the Opera. Also, Opera Mini mobile customers use these servers.

Of course, IP addresses belong to these servers, but they send header "X-Forwarded-For" with the real IP address of the user.

The list of Opera's proxies is helpful to determine the real country.

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XX is our code, the total value of which is "unknown". It includes:
- the empty or unallocated space,
- distributed, but unused networks,
- internal and test networks (10.0.0.0/8, 127.0.0.0/8, etc.),
- anycast (as an example - Google's DNS server 8.8.8.8),
- the recently announced, but not yet distributed on the internet networks.

There is no detailed information about the location of routers in API database, (we see it as unnecessary for "normal" user). Instead the region (e.g.: EU, AP) or the country of global operator (e.g.: CA for Tata) will be displayed.

We have made some changes on our website.
It is now possible to register your account.

If you are a registered user, you'll get a free daily statistic (distribution by time, countries and service codes) for your API-requests. It is important for detailed analysis of requests from different regions. For a small fee, you can also choose the nearest API server and use any other as a backup (useful for increasing the uptime of your system).

The exchange rates option is also interesting, for displaying prices of goods or services to your customers in their usual form, that increases your website's conversion rate.

In addition to currencies, also available are languages of the countries, provider, phone codes and other data. Read more on API.

The limit of 10,000 API queries is canceled now. The daily number of queries and the number of queries per second are no more restricted.

In firewall it is possible to filter by country. It is very useful to block certain countries or to balance the requests to different backends, each of which handles its region.

Now WorldIP database exists in the format for geoip module from the extension package xtables-addons for iptables. Using this module, you can build more flexible rules for iptables, based on IP-geolocation.
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WorldIP differs from similar databases in about 30% of the used IP address space.
This is because they mostly use whois-data, without regard to real use of networks.
An example: the network of Kodak 192.232.64.0 - 192.232.127.255.
Other databases show the USA for the entire network, but in reality it consists of the following subnets:
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Thanks to Craig MacKenna, there is the module IP::World for WorldIP base in CPAN.
Today it is the fastest module for access to IP database. At Athlon64 2.4GHz are 236K req/sec; XEON E5405 2Ghz - 267K req/sec
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WIP-tools include pings, traceroutes and Reverse DNS. Pings can be performed simultaneously on all servers. This option for traces will be available soon. Use our monitoring servers to analyse the IP addresses and networks.
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There was the possibility to insert JavaScript (which contained an object with different parameters based on user's IP address) into projects. Now you can get these data in JSON- and JSONP format.
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Of all the Service-Codes, we have opened the satellite providers and bots (except spy bots) now, according to our classification it is 10-14 and 40-41.
Others will be opened some time later.

Service-Code. What It Is?

Along with detecting country codes by IP based on the data obtained from routers, WIPmania makes possible to detect such address types ("service codes") as those concealing users whose location can’t be defined. A “regular” user doesn’t access the Internet via anonymous proxy or via his own VPN, installed, for example, on some server in China. In similar fashion, servers are not always used for innocent purposes but as well, for example, for scanning, spamming and fraud, by means of private or hidden proxy, spam bots or VPN installed on the server. It is well known that a regular web server wouldn’t send requests, unless it is a proxy or a robot of some service.
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There are a few ways to know your external IP address, one of them to visit the home page WIPmania.com.
For those who want to get it quickly, without unnecessary advertising, and who did not install the plugin for Firefox, it's enough to open the API site without requests with args.
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There is a geolocation mod for Invision Power Board (IPB).
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It's no secret that Google Geolocation API, which can provide geolocation data based on IP addresses, often does not show results even for developed countries. In this case Null will be returned.
There is a small simple addition to Google API.
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Configuration and use of the database (CIDR) are very practical and comfortable in nginx, so there is no problem to install it
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The table worldip contains fields start, end and code. Every row means a network. start and end are integer fields with IP numbers, code is a double-character country code, like "US".
You can convert every IP address to IP number with following formula
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There is source codes written in PHP and Python(for Django). Other languages and codes coming soon.
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You can leave your suggestions, ideas, critical remarks or other comments either in this topic or using the contact form. We will try to answer your questions promptly, but it might take a short while.
For correction of erroneous geographic data you can use the special form on our website.

Whois contains information such as geographic locations of network owners, and not the geographic location of networks themselves. But these data are also often inaccurate, sometimes even intentionally erroneous.
Here are only a few cases with examples as disadvantages of such information.
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WorldIP Free Geolocation Database

WorldIP Database helps determine exact geographic locations of Internet users based on their IP address. It supports all types of IP addresses and networks, including satellite networks. It is completely free for personal and business use, but we will be very glad, if you include a link back to WIPmania.com on your website.
The database is available for immediate download in any of the following formats
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