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Your IPinfo Databases Just Shrank by Up to 81%
We’ve optimized every IPinfo database in MMDB format. That's reduced our total catalog size by 32% and some datasets by up to 81%, while preserving the same data, format, and lookup performance.
9 hours ago by Fernanda Donnini — 2 min read
The Next Level of Geo Data: Introducing IPinfo Places
a day ago by Fernanda Donnini & Matthew Cooper — 7 min read
How to Detect Datacenter Proxies
7 days ago by Meghan Prichard — 9 min read
Day in the Life of an IPinfo Research Intern: Santiago
7 days ago by Santiago Klein — 4 min read
Recent articles
- What Black Hat 2026 Revealed About a More Complicated Security Landscape13 days ago by Paul Heywood — 5 min read
- Why Bidstream Geo Breaks and How to Fix It19 days ago by Augustin Ladar — 5 min read
- Day in the Life of an IPinfo Research Intern: Augustin22 days ago by Augustin Laouar — 4 min read
- Black Hat 2026: The Security Assumptions That No Longer Holda month ago by Paul Heywood — 2 min read
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IP Data Fundamentals
How to Detect Datacenter Proxies
7 days ago by Meghan Prichard — 9 min read
IP Address Cleanliness: Protecting Your Business’s Reputation and Success
a month ago by Guest Author — 5 min read
What Is IP Reputation and How To Check It
2 months ago by Guest Author — 5 min read
IP Data Accuracy
ProbeNet Q2 2026 Expansion: Deep North American Coverage, New Pacific Island Points of Presence, and a Sharper Network
a month ago by Fernanda Donnini — 5 min read
ProbeNet Q1 2026 Expansion: Extending Into New Territories and Strengthening Island and Frontier Coverage
5 months ago by Fernanda Donnini — 4 min read
Why Mobile Roaming Breaks IP Geolocation and How Prefix Classification Can Fix It
6 months ago by Shivani Hariprasad — 5 min read
Solving Business Challenges
Why Bidstream Geo Breaks and How to Fix It
19 days ago by Augustin Ladar — 5 min read
From Enrichment to Action: How Security Teams Operationalize IP Intelligence
3 months ago by Kevin Arquines — 6 min read
Why Am I Seeing So Many Residential Proxies Flagged in My Traffic?
3 months ago by Daniel Quandt — 5 min read
Getting Started
Redefining Automation With IPinfo and NimbleBrain
5 months ago by Ross Lewis — 3 min read
A New Documentation Experience Built for Developers and AI
5 months ago by Fernanda Donnini — 2 min read
From Fighting Infrastructure to Building Products with BigQuery
7 months ago by Fernanda Donnini — 7 min read
Optimizing and Scaling
Your IPinfo Databases Just Shrank by Up to 81%
9 hours ago by Fernanda Donnini — 2 min read
The Next Level of Geo Data: Introducing IPinfo Places
a day ago by Fernanda Donnini & Matthew Cooper — 7 min read
Every Network Lives Somewhere: Geolocation Maps Come to ASN Pages
a month ago by Ben Dowling & Fernanda Donnini — 7 min read
Community and Thought Leadership
What Black Hat 2026 Revealed About a More Complicated Security Landscape
13 days ago by Paul Heywood — 5 min read
Black Hat 2026: The Security Assumptions That No Longer Hold
a month ago by Paul Heywood — 2 min read
Webinar Recording: The World Through 10 IPs: What IP Intelligence Reveals to Investigators
a month ago by Ben Dowling & Fernanda Donnini — 6 min read
Company News and Updates
Day in the Life of an IPinfo Research Intern: Santiago
7 days ago by Santiago Klein — 4 min read
Day in the Life of an IPinfo Research Intern: Augustin
22 days ago by Augustin Laouar — 4 min read
IPinfo Recognized in 2026 Snowflake Report Highlighting the Future of AI-Driven Marketing
2 months ago by Paul Heywood — 2 min read