On 25 September 2015 at 17:52, Josh Luthman <josh@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
With a new block it took less than a week.
On Sep 25, 2015 11:36 AM, "Baldur Norddahl" <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> wrote:
You will find that it takes years before every site out there updated their copy of whatever geo database they are using.
Our original /22 block from RIPE has never had any geo IP issues. Everyone seems to recognize the country correctly from day 1. However our transferred blocks from Romania are still have issues a year later. Every geo IP database knows the correct location. But nothing forces customers of the database to actually keep their copy updated. So we keep getting complaints that this or that site is reporting the wrong country. Some of those sites are big sites that should know better. It is impossible to hunt down every single e-commerce site out there and force them to update their geo IP database. A lot of them have no clue what you are talking about. They either bought a hosted solution, and the tech guy you really want to talk to is somewhere else. Or they used contractors to build the system and now it is on auto pilot. Or you simply can't get through customer support to the tech people that know what geo IP actually is. At the end of the day, you are not going to waste too much time trying to beat clue into the heads of people running some niche site specialising in selling pink shoes, that refused to take the order from one customer because their brain dead e-commerce solution believes the customer is located in the wrong country. Regards, Baldur