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    GeoLite City and GeoLite Country database releases delayed

    The GeoLite City and GeoLite Country database updates for Tuesday, May 6, 2025 were not released as scheduled. These databases will return to their regular release schedule on Friday, May 9, 2025. Continue reading...
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    Resolved - Postal code validation bug

    We have resolved the bug that resulted in a number of incorrect and invalid values for postal codes. Continue reading...
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    Postal code validation bug

    We have identified a bug with postal code validation in our database build process. This bug is resulting in a number of incorrect and invalid values for postal codes. We are working on a fix. The following products and services are impacted: GeoIP Insights web service GeoIP City Plus web...
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    Upcoming changes to ISP names

    We are updating several ISP names in our data to match their current naming and branding conventions. We expect to release these changes in new database updates and web service requests beginning Tuesday, May 9, 2025. Current ISP name in MaxMind data Updated ISP name in MaxMind data...
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    GeoNames Monthly Diff Report April 2025

    GeoNames Monthly Diff Report (April 2025) GeoIP2 and GeoLite2 databases incorporate GeoNames geographical data, which is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Monthly updates to GeoNames data are incorporated into our databases as we refresh them. Above you will...
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    Generate custom CSVs with the latest mmdbinspect release

    You can now use the newest mmdbinspect release and the jq utility to generate custom CSVs. Here is an example showing how to process the output with the -jsonl flag and the jq utility. Any questions, please reach out to the MaxMind support team. Continue reading...
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    GeoNames Monthly Diff Report March 2025

    GeoNames Monthly Diff Report (March 2025) GeoIP2 and GeoLite2 databases incorporate GeoNames geographical data, which is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Monthly updates to GeoNames data are incorporated into our databases as we refresh them. Above you will...
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    Increase in geolocation database sizes

    Our IP geolocation databases released on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 will be significantly larger than our last release. This increase in size is expected and affects the following databases: GeoIP City database GeoIP Country database GeoIP Enterprise database GeoLite City database GeoLite Country...
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    Off schedule release for GeoIP and GeoLite location databases

    On Thursday, February 27, we will be issuing an off-schedule release of the following databases: GeoIP Enterprise database GeoIP City database GeoIP Country database GeoLite City database GeoLite Country database We are correcting country-level geolocation data for a number of networks...
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    GeoIP Anonymous IP database release delayed

    The GeoIP Anonymous IP database was not released on Saturday, February 15 or Sunday, February 16, 2025. This delay was due to a small issue with our deployment process. This issue has been resolved. The GeoIP Anonymous IP database will return to its regular release schedule on Monday, February...
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    GeoNames Monthly Diff Report February 2025

    GeoNames Monthly Diff Report (February 2025) GeoIP2 and GeoLite2 databases incorporate GeoNames geographical data, which is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Monthly updates to GeoNames data are incorporated into our databases as we refresh them. Above you will...
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    Removal of deprecated fields

    We are removing the long-deprecated fields is_anonymous_proxy and is_satellite_provider from all web services and all MMDB format databases. This will be a non-breaking change. These columns will be set to0 for all rows in CSV-format databases. The following services will be impacted: GeoIP...
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    Update—Identifying Verizon 5g Home Internet

    As announced in our previous release note, we are reclassifying a portion of Verizon Wireless networks in the United States. In addition to reclassifying the ISP name from Verizon Wireless to Verizon 5g Home Internet, we will also be reclassifying the organization name for consistency...
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    GeoNames Monthly Diff Report January 2025

    GeoNames Monthly Diff Report (January 2025) GeoIP2 and GeoLite2 databases incorporate GeoNames geographical data, which is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Monthly updates to GeoNames data are incorporated into our databases as we refresh them. Above you will...
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    metro_code deprecation in GeoIP

    The metro_code data in our GeoIP products and services is a no-longer-maintained code. Because Google does not use or publish these codes any longer, the metro_code field has now been deprecated in our GeoIP products and services. What should I do? The field will not be removed from our...
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