Re: Geofeeds are good — was Re: Publishing BGP communties for your network (Re: What's up with BGP communities?)

[Mike Lyon via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

One pain in the ass part of geolocation is that it takes a company anywhere from 1 - 3 weeks until they push their 
“update” to their systems. 

If these are eyeball customers, that isn’t really acceptable.  

The geo-ip companies need to find a way to do near-instant updates.

-Mike

> On Jan 27, 2026, at 18:40, Abdullah DevRel of IPinfo via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Please do not lump us with the rest of the industry. We are not the singular representation of the industry. By 
> methods, operations, and philosophy, we try to distance ourselves from the faults of the industry. If your customers 
> are having issues with geolocation, just talk to us. We will investigate.
>
> We are not the representative of the entire industry. We are not a "benevolent monopoly", we are in the maybe top 3 
> IP geolocation providers in the world, and we are trying our absolute best to have as many interactions to fix our 
> data..
>
> We invested in a massive scale network infrastructure, research program, and huge data investment just because 
> geofeed-based IP geolocation, which has been the standard model for the IP geolocation industry, causes so many 
> headaches for end users. Even with that, we have a support team, social media, researchers going to conferences, and 
> DevRel responding to user queries because no matter how much technical and research investment we make, there will be 
> gaps, so we should be able to respond to user queries and help out.
>
> — Abdullah | DevRel, IPinfo
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