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MaxMind is an industry-leading provider of IP intelligence, online fraud detection tools and geolocation databases.

MaxMind provides IP intelligence through the GeoIP brand. Over 5,000 companies use GeoIP data to locate their Internet visitors and show them relevant content and ads, perform analytics, enforce digital rights, and efficiently route Internet traffic. Businesses can obtain additional insights into their customers' connection speeds, ISPs, and more using GeoIP data.

MaxMind's industry-leading minFraud service helps businesses prevent fraudulent online transactions and reduce manual review. The minFraud service is used to screen over 40 million e-commerce transactions and account registrations a month. Over 6,000 e-commerce businesses benefit from the minFraud service through our client and partner networks.

MaxMind is privately held and based in Waltham, Massachusetts in the United States.

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Continuously decreasing accuracy of maxmind geolite city

We've been using awstats together with Maxmind's GeoLite City (now GeoLite Legacy City) database for website statistics of a non-profit organization. The percentage of unknown cities (the ones not found in the database) has long been at some 15 -…
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Querying GeoLite2 Country CSV in SQL

Does anyone know how to look up an IP4 address from MaxMind's GeoLite2 Country CSV using SQL? I have been using MaxMind's free GeoIP data for many years, and would like to upgrade to their GeoLite2 data. I have the blocks and locations data loaded…
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What data areaCode and metroCode columns contain for in maxmind?

As i inderstand area code - is regional telephone code, right? What for metro code column stays for then?
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How to set the path to geoIp in nginx

I'm trying to install Nginx GeoIP module on centos6. I'm using this guide to install it: How to install Nginx GeoIP module But I face this problem when I try to set the path of GeoIp in nginx.cof: nginx: [emerg] unknown directive "geoip_country"…
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How to install libmaxminddb on heroku

The libmaxminddb c libary improves the performance of geo location look ups. But how can I install it on heroku? There is a linux package, but how can this be installed?
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Using geoip2 for timezone look up

The django.contrib.gis.geoip2 framework expose a high level geolocation api. I want to use it to look up the user timezone, but the queries do not return the timezone, although the maxmind documetion says that their databases include them. Am I…
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Custom MaxmindDB (geoip2) with Private IPs

How to create a custom Maxmind database with PRIVATE IPs address. I need something like this Customizing Maxmind DB. I tried to following this Building Your Own MMDB Database for Fun and Profit . So I changed the PERL script to the following:…
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MaxMind: loading GeoIP2 mmdb into memory for fast read

I am using MaxMind's GeoIP2 to get the geo information for an IP address. In my Java web application, the DatabaseReader reader = new DatabaseReader.Builder(new File("C:\GeoLite2-City.mmdb").withCache(new CHMCache()).build(); I am hoping to load…
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GeoIP function returning 0

I'm working on implementing some geoIP functionality to redirect a user away from my .com site to the relevant country domain (.fr, .es, .co.uk ...etc). I've the following in my index.php to check the users IP: ini_set('display_errors',…
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Maxmind Geoip city encoding issue

When configuring Max Mind with Nginx (using something like proxy_set_header GEOIP_CITY $geoip_city;), I get encoding issues with the city name when it has accents in it (like Montréal). I’ve search everywhere and I can’t find an nginx switch to…
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Override context language based on visitor's GEOIP in Sitecore?

I am using sitecore 7.5 version with mongo analytics db and I need to override the context language based on Visitor’s Geo IP . but whenever I call my file on httpRequestBegin Pipeline, current Sitecore.analytics.Tracker.Current is null. Can anyone…
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Call reference for country in GeoLite2 using PHP

I'm trying to use the free MaxMind GeoLite2 code to be able to determine the country of a specific IP address. I am using the Composer-free method that was posted here: Get a localized name of the users city via Maxmind GeoLite2 Free I'm sure its…
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How to get ip to information with maxmind javascript

I want to get user's ip, location, city, country etc with maxmind javascript but I got null there are any mistake by me? also I have a question may I place maxmind javascript to my plugin for unlimited use? My javascript here:
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Move to GeoLite2 Free

I currently use GeoLite Free with my awstats analytics. I would like to start using GeoLite2 Free. What do I need to do to move from GeolLite to GeoLite2? I am assuming the format changed, so something in awstats needs to change perhaps? I use…
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MaxMind GeoIP libraries and database on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

I'm trying to figure out how to install and use GeoIP libraries on AWS (Elastic Beanstalk). As far I know EB has an "ephemeral filesystem", but I could store the CeoCity binary in S3… but what about MaxMind C libraries? Has anyone configured EB to…
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