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IP Geolocation Fundamentals
7 Essential IP Geolocation API Features Every Developer Needs
9 months ago by Meghan Prichard — 5 min read
Geolocation Data Explained: Accuracy, Signals, and Real World Use
9 months ago by Oliver Gasser — 4 min read
How much is an IP? Geolocation costs and considerations
a year ago by Meghan Prichard — 9 min read
How Do I Get An IP Geolocation API Key?
a year ago by Meghan Prichard — 5 min read
How to Use IP Geolocation for Business
a year ago by Meghan Prichard — 6 min read
What Is a Geofeed and How to Set Up One?
2 years ago by Abdullah — 6 min read
Geolocation Database Providers: Side by Side Comparison
2 years ago by Meghan Prichard — 7 min read
How Often Do IP Addresses Change?
2 years ago by Maxime Mouchet — 7 min read
Device-Based Geolocation: Understanding Location Tracking
2 years ago by Meghan Prichard — 9 min read
Best IP Geolocation API | 2025 Roundup
2 years ago by Meghan Prichard — 9 min read
Top Benefits of IP Geolocation for Businesses
2 years ago by Fernanda Donnini — 8 min read
Where most IPs are located around the world
4 years ago by IPinfo Team — 3 min read
How to get started on geolocation advertising
5 years ago by IPinfo Team — 7 min read
How modern governments benefit from IP address data
5 years ago by IPinfo Team — 6 min read
11 businesses that use geolocation data well
6 years ago by IPinfo Team — 6 min read
Top ways to use IP geolocation data
6 years ago by IPinfo Team — 4 min read
IP data for investigators and journalists
6 years ago by IPinfo Team — 7 min read
IP geolocation API comparison: how to choose the best geolocation service?
6 years ago by IPinfo Team — 8 min read
IP Address Basics
IP Address Cleanliness: Protecting Your Business’s Reputation and Success
4 months ago by Guest Author — 5 min read
What Is IP Reputation and How To Check It
5 months ago by Guest Author — 5 min read
What Is IP Intelligence and Why It Matters Beyond Geolocation
6 months ago by Meghan Prichard & Fernanda Donnini — 6 min read
Order Without Ownership: IP Address Allocation and Routing in a Decentralized Internet
a year ago by Maxime Mouchet — 12 min read
Comparing IPv4 and IPv6
2 years ago by Abdullah — 5 min read
Static vs. Dynamic IP Addresses
2 years ago by Meghan Prichard — 7 min read
Static IP Address Example & Set-Up Process
2 years ago by Abdullah — 7 min read
IP Address Information: What Data Can Be Gathered?
2 years ago by Meghan Prichard — 7 min read
What firmographics can be gathered from IP address data
5 years ago by IPinfo Team — 4 min read
Anonymization & Privacy
How to Detect Datacenter Proxies
3 months ago by Meghan Prichard — 9 min read
How VPNs and Residential Proxies Are Used in Abuse: Findings from 2026 RSAC Research
7 months ago by Daniel Quandt & Tiago Martins — 6 min read
What Makes an IP Look Like It’s Part of a Residential Proxy Pool
10 months ago by Abdullah — 2 min read
The Residential Proxy Problem: Shared Infrastructure and Rapid Rotation
10 months ago by Tiago Martins & Fernanda Donnini — 7 min read
How Everyday Users Unknowingly Become Part of Residential Proxy Networks
10 months ago by Abdullah — 3 min read
How VPNs Use ISP-Based IP Infrastructure
a year ago by Fernanda Donnini — 5 min read
Why VPN Infrastructure Location Impacts Risk Scoring
a year ago by Fernanda Donnini — 5 min read
How to Interpret IPinfo's VPN and Hosting Signals: A Classification Framework
a year ago by Daniel Quandt — 6 min read
VPN IP Data vs Proxy Data: Differences & Similarities
a year ago by Meghan Prichard — 8 min read
VPNs and IP Data: Understanding VPN Detection
2 years ago by Meghan Prichard — 6 min read
The Role of VPN Detection in Preventing Fraud
2 years ago by Meghan Prichard — 5 min read
How People Hide Their IPs and Why It Can Be Useful to Detect Them
2 years ago by Meghan Prichard — 7 min read
The Impact of Last-Digit IP Anonymization
2 years ago by Daniel Quandt — 7 min read
What Is a Relay Service and How Does It Work?
2 years ago by Abdullah — 3 min read
Masked IP addresses and digital rights management
5 years ago by IPinfo Team — 5 min read
Deep dive into privacy detection data and masked IPs
5 years ago by IPinfo Team — 4 min read
5 businesses who use privacy detection data well
5 years ago by IPinfo Team — 4 min read
Industry Trends & Analysis
One Company Accounts for 80% of AFRINIC's IP Addresses Being Used Outside Africa
17 hours ago by Oliver Gasser & João Tomé — 10 min read
Starlink Is in 223 Countries, but in India and Ukraine Its IP Addresses Sit Almost Unused
3 days ago by João Tomé — 9 min read
The Internet Brief #1 | Yandex goes dark, French fridges go warm
10 days ago by João Tomé — 5 min read
RPKI Now Protects 70% of Internet Routes, Up From 54% a Year Ago
22 days ago by João Tomé — 13 min read
The United States of Walmart, According to WiFi Data
a month ago by João Tomé — 10 min read
Iran's internet has collapsed twice this year. Here's what we measured.
6 months ago by Paul Heywood & Tiago Martins — 5 min read
Intern Research: Understanding the Behavior and Categorization of Personal Autonomous Systems
a year ago by Mert Erdemir — 8 min read
What I've Learned From 30 Days of Residential Proxy Data
a year ago by Daniel Quandt — 6 min read
The 4 marketing rules to break when selling an invisible product
9 years ago by IPinfo Team — 6 min read
Stack Overflow, Hacker News, and Reddit: how to grow real grassroots support
9 years ago by IPinfo Team — 9 min read
The developer’s guide to choosing the least shitty APIs
9 years ago by IPinfo Team — 7 min read
How I monetized my invisible product
9 years ago by IPinfo Team — 8 min read
Why you need to give away your API for free
9 years ago by IPinfo Team — 6 min read
I answered 99 Stack Overflow questions and now 2 million developers know about my product
9 years ago by IPinfo Team — 6 min read