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    GeoIP Location database releases delayed

    Due to an issue we are currently investigating, the GeoIP database updates for Monday, December 15, 2025 for the following databases won’t be released as scheduled: GeoIP City database GeoIP Country database GeoIP Enterprise database GeoLite City database GeoLite Country database The GeoIP...
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    GeoNames monthly diff report December 2025

    GeoNames monthly diff report (December 2025) GeoIP and GeoLite 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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    Subdivision, city, and postal fields blanked in additional countries

    Effective Monday, December 1, 2025, we will be blanking out the subdivision, city, and postal fields more often in the following countries. This change will result in fewer resolutions in: Belgium Israel Italy The Netherlands Portugal Sweden Ukraine We will also be blanking out city and...
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    IP risk snapshot output added to traits object in the Insights web services

    We have added the ip_risk_snapshot to the traits object in our GeoIP Insights web service and our minFraud Insights and Factors web services. This field contains the risk associated with the IP address. The value ranges from 0.01 to 99. A higher score indicates a higher risk. The IP risk...
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    New anonymizer data added to web services

    We have added an anonymizer object to our web services. This object contains the anonymizer data previously found in the traits object together with new outputs. Anonymizer data in the traits object is being marked as deprecated. However, for backwards compatibility, anonymizer data in the...
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    Subdivision, city, and postal fields blanked in selected cities and countries

    Effective tomorrow, Wednesday, November 19, 2025, we will be blanking out the subdivision, city, and postal fields more often in the following cities and countries. This change will result in fewer resolutions in: Bangkok, Thailand Istanbul, Turkey All cities in Argentina All cities in France...
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    GeoNames monthly diff report November 2025

    GeoNames monthly diff report (November 2025) GeoIP and GeoLite 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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    A number of GeoIP databases not released as scheduled yesterday

    The GeoIP database updates for Monday, November 10, 2025 for the following databases were not released as scheduled: GeoIP Country database GeoIP City database GeoIP ISP database GeoIP Enterprise database GeoLite Country database GeoLite City database These databases will return to their...
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    [Update] Upcoming change to identify Verizon 5G Home as a separate ISP

    As previously announced, tomorrow, November 11, 2025, some networks previously labeled Verizon Wireless will have their ISP name updated to Verizon 5G Home to improve coverage and accuracy. In addition, we will also be shortening the ISP name for Verizon 5g Home Internet to Verizon 5G Home...
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    Subdivision, city, and postal fields blanked in selected large cities

    Effective Monday, November 10, 2025, we will be blanking out the subdivision, city, and postal fields more often in Austria, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Spain, and Sweden where the end users are actually dispersed all over the country. This change will result in fewer resolutions to the...
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    Upcoming change to identify Verizon 5G Home as a separate ISP

    We will soon be distinguishing Verizon 5G Home connections from the broader pool of Verizon networks. Some networks previously labeled Verizon Wireless will have their ISP name updated to Verizon 5G Home. This change will go live on Tuesday, November 11, 2025 and will be reflected in the...
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    Subdivision, city, and postal fields to be blanked in Tokyo metro area in some cases

    Effective today, Monday, November 3, 2025, we will be blanking out the subdivision, city, and postal fields in cases where the subdivision was previously mapped to Tokyo but end-users are dispersed throughout Japan. This change will result in fewer resolutions to the Tokyo subdivision and will...
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    GeoNames monthly diff report October 2025

    GeoNames monthly diff report (October 2025) GeoIP and GeoLite 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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    GeoIP Anonymous IP, GeoIP Anonymous Plus, and GeoIP IP Risk databases not released as scheduled yesterday

    The GeoIP database updates for Monday, October 20, 2025 for the following databases were not released as scheduled: GeoIP Anonymous IP GeoIP Anonymous Plus GeoIP IP Risk These databases will return to their regular release schedule today, Tuesday October 21, 2025. Continue reading...
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    GeoIP Anonymous Plus database size decrease

    The GeoIP Anonymous Plus database has significantly decreased in size due to an expected change to how we handle some low confidence networks. A large number of lower confidence VPN networks have been removed from the GeoIP Anonymous Plus database. We have removed these networks in order to...
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