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    Elevated response times for web service requests experienced by some customers—resolved

    Today, on September 11, 2026, between approximately 03:57 and 07:00 UTC, some requests to our minFraud and GeoIP web services saw elevated response times. The impact was greatest between about 04:15 and 04:50 UTC, when affected requests could take several seconds to complete. This was limited...
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    Elevated response times for web service requests experienced by some customers—resolved

    Today, on September 11, 2026, between approximately 03:57 and 07:00 UTC, some requests to our minFraud and GeoIP web services saw elevated response times. The impact was greatest between about 04:15 and 04:50 UTC, when affected requests could take several seconds to complete. This was limited...
  3. MaxMind

    Download interruption incident—resolved

    A number of GeoIP customers were unable to download GeoIP databases today, Monday August 31, 2026, between 18:50 UTC and 19:48 UTC. We have identified the issue and the incident has been resolved. Continue reading...
  4. MaxMind

    Download interruption incident—resolved

    A number of GeoIP customers were unable to download GeoIP databases today, Monday August 31, 2026, between 18:50 UTC and 19:48 UTC. We have identified the issue and the incident has been resolved. Continue reading...
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    Residential proxy database now available as part of the GeoIP Anonymous Plus suite

    The GeoIP Anonymous Plus suite now includes the GeoIP Residential Proxy database. This database provides best-in-class detection of residential proxies, which have become the primary vehicle for circumventing geofencing restrictions and online fraud, as well as dramatically improved detection...
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    Residential proxy database now available as part of the GeoIP Anonymous Plus suite

    The GeoIP Anonymous Plus suite now includes the GeoIP Residential Proxy database. This database provides best-in-class detection of residential proxies, which have become the primary vehicle for circumventing geofencing restrictions and online fraud, as well as dramatically improved detection...
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    New residential sub-object added to the anonymizer object

    We have added a residential sub-object to the anonymizer object, providing data about residential proxy networks: new data description anonymizer/residential/confidence A score ranging from 1 to 99 that represents our percent confidence that the network is an actively used residential...
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    Updating the ISP name for a number of networks

    We are updating the ISP name for some networks to provide further granularity regarding smaller downstream providers. As an example, we will observe the change below in the ISP field for some networks: Current ISP name Updated ISP name China Mobile Shanghai Mobile Communications China...
  9. MaxMind

    New residential sub-object added to the anonymizer object

    We have added a residential sub-object to the anonymizer object, providing data about residential proxy networks: new data description anonymizer/residential/confidence A score ranging from 1 to 99 that represents our percent confidence that the network is an actively used residential...
  10. MaxMind

    Updating the ISP name for a number of networks

    We are updating the ISP name for some networks to provide further granularity regarding smaller downstream providers. As an example, we will observe the change below in the ISP field for some networks: Current ISP name Updated ISP name China Mobile Shanghai Mobile Communications China...
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    GeoIP Legacy web service now returns HTTP status codes for errors

    The GeoIP Legacy web service now returns meaningful HTTP status codes for error conditions, so you can act on them in your monitoring or an internal proxy, without parsing the response body: 400 Bad Request for a malformed request 401 Unauthorized for a missing or invalid license key 402...
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    GeoIP Legacy web service now returns HTTP status codes for errors

    The GeoIP Legacy web service now returns meaningful HTTP status codes for error conditions, so you can act on them in your monitoring or an internal proxy, without parsing the response body: 400 Bad Request for a malformed request 401 Unauthorized for a missing or invalid license key 402...
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    A number of networks now have an anonymizer confidence of 50

    As of June 24, 2026, a number of networks have an anonymizer_confidence of 50, a new value that sits between our existing values of 30 and 99. This change will be reflected in the following products and services: GeoIP Anonymous Plus database GeoIP Insights web service Continue reading...
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    A number of networks now have an anonymizer confidence of 50

    As of June 24, 2026, a number of networks have an anonymizer_confidence of 50, a new value that sits between our existing values of 30 and 99. This change will be reflected in the following products and services: GeoIP Anonymous Plus database GeoIP Insights web service Continue reading...
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    City field blanked in selected cities/provinces and countries

    Effective Monday, June 15, 2026, we will be blanking out the city field more often in the following cities/provinces in Saudi Arabia to reduce false positives when the end users of a network are dispersed all over the country. This change will result in fewer resolutions in: Jeddah (city)...
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