IP Geolocation API Documentation

IP based geolocation is becoming an essential means for delivering personalised user experiences. Many internet services like news, social networks, video streaming sites, e-commerce and location-based apps are dependent on accurate IP geolocation data. Moreover, it is widely utilised for fraud prevention and cybersecurity. Incorrect IP Geolocation can negatively affect the overall user online experience, often leading to customer complaints. ...

The 'confidence value' is an innovative and more effective approach to evaluate the accuracy and reliability of IP geolocation data using BigDataCloud's proprietary technology. Conventional methods can only provide a single-point location estimate that may not represent the actual location of a dynamically assigned IP address. This issue is further compounded by the challenge of verifying and reconciling conflicting data from multiple sources, which explains why human-based validation remains a common approach, despite its limitations....

If for some reason our IP geolocation result for your IP address is not accurate, you can help us to improve our service by sharing your location. Please check our detailed instructions here. If you are an ISP or ASN or looking at updating a range of IP addressess, please check our ...

We do not use DNS entries as we found them unreliable. Our IP Geolocation data solely relies on:WhoIs registry data BGP global routing data A Self Published IP Geolocation Feeds (Geofeed) RFC8805Field evidence data Our proprietary network infrastructure Big Data crawlers ...

Due to the global shortage of IPv4 addresses, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are working hard trying to utilise the IP address space available to them, in the most effective way possible. Hence, they usually dedicate a pool of IP addresses, to a section of their network, which sometimes covers a substantial geographical area. This method of dynamic address allocation significantly minimises the number of IP addresses required to serve the area because it effectively covers the active users rather than the entire clients base....