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Official Account of https://nitter.cf/t.co/5l9aZ5IKr4. Developer's favorite API service to determine geolocation (lat/long, country, city,state etc) from an IP Address.

Joined March 2018
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About 6.3M requests in one day claimed to be GPTBot or ClaudeBot while probing sites for .env files (Fastly). A user agent is a claim. The IP shows who runs the bot, and our new guide shows how to check it. #BotDetection #AppSec #CyberSecurity
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The EU's new cloud sovereignty plan has 4 levels. Storing data in the EU only gets you level 1. Every outside service that sees your visitors' IPs is now part of the question. Run lookups on your own servers. ipgeolocation.io/documentati… #DataSovereignty #GDPR
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Europe puts its clocks back on 25 October. The US waits until 1 November. For one week New York is 4 hours behind London, not 5. Four Canadian jurisdictions stopped changing clocks entirely this year. ipgeolocation.io/timezone-ap… #TimeZones #DevTools
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One in every 18 requests carrying an AI crawler name is fake. For ChatGPT's browsing crawler it is one in six. A policy on AI agents is only worth the check behind it. ipgeolocation.io/user-agent-… #AgenticCommerce #BotDetection
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Gift cards run about 4x riskier than physical goods, and fraud buys cluster at 11 to 50 cards per order. No address to verify, no delivery to cancel. Score the connection behind the order instead. ipgeolocation.io/ip-security… #FraudPrevention #Ecommerce
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A signup from a datacenter IP is almost never human. But block all cloud IPs and you lock out the company behind a corporate proxy. Tell datacenters apart from corporate gateways and good bots, in one lookup. ipgeolocation.io/ip-security… #FraudPrevention #CyberSecurity
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You schedule an email for 9 AM. For a third of your list, it lands at 3 AM and gets buried. Send by each recipient's real local time, not your server's clock. ipgeolocation.io/timezone-ap… #EmailMarketing #MarketingOps
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The proxy traffic hitting your login page comes from a real home IP in your own city. Your blocklist has no reason to stop it. You can't blocklist your way out of residential proxies. Detect the proxy itself. ipgeolocation.io/ip-security… #FraudPrevention #CyberSecurity
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Client-side device detection runs after the page ships. By the time it knows it's a phone, the desktop bundle is already downloading. Parse device, OS, and browser server-side, from the first request. ipgeolocation.io/user-agent-… #WebPerformance #WebDev
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Your API traffic doubles. Looks like a big customer. It's a scraper, same calls from hundreds of IPs, each just under your rate limit. IPGeolocation.io flags the data-center and proxy IPs your per-IP limits can't see. ipgeolocation.io/ip-security… #APISecurity #botmanagement
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A fixed lighting timer is wrong twice a year. In summer it burns power in daylight. In winter it leaves you dark before anyone's gone home. IPGeolocation.io gives real local sunrise and sunset for any day, so lights follow the sun: ipgeolocation.io/astronomy-a… #SmartHome #IoT
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Your customer logs in from a new city. Traveling, or hacked? Location alone can't say, so most apps check everyone and annoy real travelers. IPGeolocation.io adds the connection: clean network = travel, proxy or datacenter = trouble. ipgeolocation.io/ip-security… #fraud #infosec
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A $1,200 order from a new account. Card clears, address is real, every rule says yes. Weeks later, the money is taken back. Nobody checked the connection: a data-center IP hiding where they are. IPGeolocation.io flags it: ipgeolocation.io/ip-security… #Security #EcommerceFraud
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