Yep, that's what I finally got. This is a pretty major issue for me and also shows a massive failing on Google..

I'm a VPS hosting provider, and despite no change in geolocation from any other vendor, no changes in the whois on either my ASN or my IP subnets, google is now redirecting to Google Hong Kong (likely due to Asian clients using VPNs from their phones).. This is incredibly annoying and clients shouldn't be able to change geolocation on an entire /24 that easily.

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From: Josh Luthman <josh@imaginenetworksllc.com>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2021 2:52:48 PM
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael K. Spears <michael@spears.io>; nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Google IP Geolocation
 
https://isp.google.com

I signed up for an account there and they said:

"Currently, the Google ISP portal is designed for our partners of GGC, PNI or IX programs.
 
The access to portal is granted on request only to our partners." 

Josh Luthman
24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373


On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 2:08 PM Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:


On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 1:59 PM Josh Luthman <josh@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
Google ISP specifically told me they didn't want to do deal with geolocation on the ISP portal.


unsure who 'google isp' is here, but ... I think if you point at a properly formed geo-location data file it'll get eaten and produce proper results for you.
you do have to add that in your isp portal:
   tri-pipe-thingy -> configuration -> IP geolocation
and /register feed/ button on that page.
 
Josh Luthman
24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373


On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 3:28 PM Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
As a note, on the ISP portal there's a place to put a link to your RFC8805 format geolocation feed...
these are scraped out 'regularly' and help keep things oriented better for folks.

the ietf noc folk use this method to tell google (and other folk who scrape out our data) where meetings are before the meetings get there:
  https://noc.ietf.org/geo/google.csv

-chris
volunteer noc persona

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 6:43 PM Michael K. Spears <michael@spears.io> wrote:

Awesome, I think I’ve figured out the Google ISP portal signup, but it definitely seems semi-complicated in a way, notably finding the link…

 

Thank you,

Michael K. Spears

727.656.3347

 

From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 6:30 PM
To: Michael K. Spears <michael@spears.io>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Google IP Geolocation

 

We're working on a video to show people how to sign up for the ISP portal and get to that part of the portal once signed up. We'll drop a link to it near the Google section of our geolocation page.



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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com

Midwest-IX
http://www.midwest-ix.com

 

From: "Michael K. Spears" <michael@spears.io>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 5:10:23 PM
Subject: Google IP Geolocation

Anyone have a good contact at Google who can help with IP geolocation? I have a /24 where anything related to Google is in the wrong language.

 

Thank you,

Michael K. Spears