Changes to Registered Country data
September 26, 2022This release note is more than two years old and may no longer reflect
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We have made some changes to how we determine the registered country associated with an IP address. We estimate that this change will affect around 1% of IP addresses with a registered country value. The following databases and web services will be affected:
- GeoIP2 Country database
- GeoIP2 City database
- GeoIP2 Enterprise database
- GeoLite2 Country database
- GeoLite2 City database
- GeoIP2 Country web service
- GeoIP2 City Plus web service
- GeoIP2 Insights web service
- GeoLite2 Country web service
- GeoLite2 City web service
- minFraud Insights web service
- minFraud Factors web service
In some cases where we are no longer confident in the registered country for an IP, it will be removed. In other cases, the value may be changed.
You can learn more about the /registered_country output in the API schema for GeoIP2 web services.