Choosing The Best Geolocation Database Engine

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The other day (to be specific around mid April), I had to re-evaluate the accuracy of available Geolocation Database that we can use for our application and the result isn’t as what we consider an accurate as we thought it should be. For the case study I tested varies IP using IP2Nation, Maxmind and IP2Location. Result after the jump.

Test Result

IP Reference MaxMind IP2Nation IP2Location
17.84.20.0 - Singapore USA USA
58.185.87.15 - Asia Pasific Singapore Singapore
57.73.8.0 - Singapore France Singapore
61.8.235.0 - Singapore Singapore Singapore
58.147.25.137 - Anonymous Proxy Thailand Thailand
123.136.64.0 - Singapore Australia Singapore
152.102.0.0 - Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong
24.247.66.205 - Anonymous Proxy USA USA
61.88.131.189 Wikipedia, Singtel Shared IP Singapore Australia Australia
203.124.2.17 Wikipedia, Singtel Shared IP Singapore Singapore Singapore
61.88.171.38 Wikipedia, Singtel Shared IP Australia Australia Australia
143.231.249.141 Wikipedia, American Shared IP USA USA USA
209.99.108.22 Wikipedia, American Shared IP USA USA USA
202.45.133.56 UPSI Perak Malaysia Hong Kong NULL

The result might be different today but this a this only show that all doesn’t give a correct result all the time and mind you that two out of the three is paid/subscription based services.

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