IPGeolocation

IPGeolocation Official Page of https://ipgeolocation.io . We are providers of an IP geolocation, Timezone and Astronomy API. Developers' favorite API for geolocation!

Gift cards are about to be one of the busiest things in your store, and the easiest thing to buy with someone else's car...
06/10/2026

Gift cards are about to be one of the busiest things in your store, and the easiest thing to buy with someone else's card.

Think about what disappears when the order is a gift card. No shipping address to check. No delivery window to cancel inside. No package anyone can intercept. The balance goes live the second the order clears and gets spent or resold within minutes. The dispute shows up weeks later, so you refund the money and lose the value on the same order.

Riskified puts gift card segments at around four times the risk of physical goods, with fraudulent buyers clustering between 11 and 50 cards an order.

Most teams answer this with a volume rule. Too many orders from one address, block it. That rule hits the company buying 200 cards for its staff and does nothing to a ring spreading orders across hundreds of home connections through residential proxies.

What still works is looking at the connection behind the order. IPGeolocation.io's IP Security API scores each one from 0 to 100 and tells you whether it is a VPN, a proxy, a residential proxy, a Tor exit or a privacy relay, who runs it, and when that address was last seen. Corporate gateways are marked separately, so your biggest business customer is not treated like an anonymizer.

Worth doing before the season starts: run the last 90 days of gift card orders through it in one go and see which rings are already sitting in your data.

https://ipgeolocation.io/ip-security-api.html

A signup from an Amazon or Hetzner server is almost never a real person. Nobody routes through a datacenter to fill in y...
05/10/2026

A signup from an Amazon or Hetzner server is almost never a real person. Nobody routes through a datacenter to fill in your registration form by hand. So blocking those signups sounds easy: grab a list of cloud IP ranges and drop anything that matches.

Then the support tickets start. A whole company gets locked out because their office routes everyone's traffic through a corporate security gateway that lives in cloud address space. Your own build server gets blocked. The list you copied is already out of date. You meant to stop bots and ended up turning away customers.

The missing piece is context. A raw IP list cannot tell a rented server apart from a real employee whose company happens to route through the cloud.

The IPGeolocation.io IP Security API gives you that in one lookup. It tells you whether an IP belongs to a hosting provider and which one, whether that cloud IP is actually a corporate gateway fronting a whole company, whether it is a known good bot like a search or AI crawler, and a risk score from 0 to 100. Datacenter traffic you can block. A VPN or proxy, which is often just a privacy-minded real user, you can challenge instead of blocking outright.

See it for any IP: https://ipgeolocation.io/ip-security-api.html

When you schedule an email for 9 AM, whose 9 AM is it?Most marketing tools send on one clock: yours. So you pick 9 AM an...
01/10/2026

When you schedule an email for 9 AM, whose 9 AM is it?

Most marketing tools send on one clock: yours. So you pick 9 AM and everyone gets it at 9 AM your time. For a subscriber on the other side of the world, that is 3 AM. By the time they wake up, your email is buried under everything that came in overnight.

Here is the part that actually hurts. That person keeps opening late or not at all, so your reports start calling them unengaged. They get emailed less, then dropped. Nothing was wrong with the relationship. You just kept reaching them while they were asleep, and read it as disinterest.

Hardcoding a time zone offset does not really fix it either, because daylight saving moves the clock by an hour twice a year. What you tuned in the summer is off by fall.

The IPGeolocation.io Time Zone API gives you each contact's real local time, UTC offset, and daylight saving status from their IP, coordinates, or a city you already store. Schedule against that, and 9 AM means 9 AM where they actually are, and it stays right through every DST change.

Get it for any location: https://ipgeolocation.io/timezone-api.html

When you send at 9 AM, whose 9 AM is it, yours or theirs?

The proxy traffic hitting your login page is coming from a real home internet connection, in a real city, maybe even you...
29/09/2026

The proxy traffic hitting your login page is coming from a real home internet connection, in a real city, maybe even yours. Your blocklist has no reason to stop it.

That is what makes residential proxies so hard to catch. The connection exits through an ordinary household device, a smart TV, a router, or a streaming stick that got infected through a bundled app. To your systems it looks like a normal customer, because at the network level it is one. And by the time you flag the address, the proxy has already rotated to the next house.

The supply of these devices is not going down, either. Three of the biggest residential proxy networks were taken down in 2026: IPIDEA in January, Kimwolf in March, NetNut in July. All real wins by law enforcement and Google. Yet the number of hijacked devices for hire jumped from about 1 million to 8 or 9 million, and researchers now track close to 60 million infected IPs worldwide. Takedowns remove the operator, not the devices, so competitors just buy the capacity and keep going.

What works is checking the connection itself, not its reputation. The IPGeolocation.io IP Security API tells you in real time whether a connection is a residential proxy, VPN, proxy, or Tor node, and gives you the provider name, a confidence level, and a risk score from 0 to 100. Something you can actually act on the moment someone logs in or pays.

See it for any IP: https://ipgeolocation.io/ip-security-api.html

How are you spotting proxy traffic right now, by blocklist or by behavior?

Client-side device detection has a timing problem: it runs after your page has already been sent. So by the time your co...
28/09/2026

Client-side device detection has a timing problem: it runs after your page has already been sent. So by the time your code knows it is talking to a phone, that phone has started downloading the desktop version.

On a weak mobile connection, the visitor sees a blank screen, waits, and leaves. And the bounce usually gets blamed on their connection, not on the fact that you sent them the wrong build.

You have seen the smaller versions of this too. An iPhone user taps "Get the app" and lands on the Google Play store. A download page offers the Windows installer to someone on a Mac.

All of it is decidable on the server, before anything ships. The IPGeolocation.io User Agent API reads the user agent that comes in with the first request and hands back the device, operating system, browser, and layout engine, plus whether the visitor is actually a bot or crawler. With that, you serve the right build, the right app-store link, and the right layout on the first byte.

Parse a single request or up to 50,000 at once: https://ipgeolocation.io/user-agent-api.html

How are you handling per-device rendering right now, on the server or after the page loads?

Your API traffic doubles overnight. First reaction: great, maybe a customer scaled up.Then you look closer. It is the sa...
24/09/2026

Your API traffic doubles overnight. First reaction: great, maybe a customer scaled up.

Then you look closer. It is the same few endpoints hit over and over, from hundreds of different IPs, each one sitting just under your rate limit. That is not a customer. It is a scraper pulling your data and spreading it across a rotating pool of addresses so no single one ever sets off your alarm.

Rate limits per IP were made for when one user meant one address. Whoever is doing this knows that, so they spread thin. Counting requests per IP will never catch it, because each IP looks perfectly normal on its own.

The signal you are missing is the connection itself. IPGeolocation.io's IP Security API scores each request and flags whether it is a data center, a proxy, or a known bot, along with the provider behind it. A real customer and a scraper hiding across a hundred addresses look completely different once you check what they are connecting through, not just how often.

Stop counting requests per address. Start asking what each address actually is.

See how it works: https://ipgeolocation.io/ip-security-api.html

How would you catch scraping that stays under every limit you set?

A fixed lighting timer is wrong twice a year, every year. In summer it burns power in broad daylight. In winter it leave...
23/09/2026

A fixed lighting timer is wrong twice a year, every year. In summer it burns power in broad daylight. In winter it leaves the place dark before anyone has gone home.

The reason is simple: the sun keeps moving and the clock doesn't. Real sunset drifts by hours between summer and winter, so a timer someone set to 6:30pm and 7am months ago is slowly wrong in one direction, then the other. You pay to light an empty, sunlit street in June, and the place looks shut in December right when a lit window matters most.

There is a better way. IPGeolocation.io's Astronomy API gives you the real sunrise and sunset for a location, in that place's own local time, for any date. Smart lighting usually kicks in at the start of dusk, when the light actually begins to fade, rather than exactly at sunset. You can even grab a range of days at once and let the schedule follow the sun by itself.

A timer guesses at the sun. This follows it.

See how it works: https://ipgeolocation.io/astronomy-api.html

How do your lights decide when it is dark right now?

Your customer just logged in from a city they have never used before. Two things could be true: they are on a trip, or s...
21/09/2026

Your customer just logged in from a city they have never used before. Two things could be true: they are on a trip, or someone stole their password.

Location on its own cannot tell you which one. So most systems play it safe and check everyone, and your real customers get stopped every single time they travel.

But there is a second clue: not just where they are, but what they are connecting through. A real traveler is almost always on a normal phone or home network, somewhere that fits them. A stolen login is much more likely to be on a proxy or a data-center IP that hides where it really is.

IPGeolocation.io gives you both in one lookup, the location and a risk score on the connection. A normal place on a clean connection looks like travel. A hidden connection in a strange place looks like a problem.

Now you stop bugging people for going on a trip, and start checking the logins that really need it.

See how it works: https://ipgeolocation.io/ip-location-api.html

How do you tell a traveling customer from an attacker right now?

A new customer places a $1,200 order. The card is real and it goes through. The address is a real house. The email looks...
17/09/2026

A new customer places a $1,200 order. The card is real and it goes through. The address is a real house. The email looks normal. Every fraud rule says yes, so you ship it.

Three weeks later, the money gets taken back. The real cardholder never bought a thing. And that "real house" turned out to be a company that ships packages overseas for people. The order is long gone.

Here is what nobody checked. The buyer was on a data-center IP, using a service made to hide where they really are. A real person buying a $1,200 item almost never connects that way. Someone using a stolen card almost always does.

That is the gap IPGeolocation.io's IP Security API fills. It looks at the connection behind an order and flags VPNs, proxies, and data-center IPs, plus the provider behind them. So you can hold the order before it ships, instead of finding out later.

The order was made to pass your rules. The connection was the one thing they could not fake.

See how it works: https://ipgeolocation.io/ip-security-api.html

Here is a number worth sitting with. 40% of shoppers will not buy from a website that isn't in their language. Not "less...
15/09/2026

Here is a number worth sitting with. 40% of shoppers will not buy from a website that isn't in their language. Not "less likely to." Never. And almost none of them will hunt for your language switcher first. They just leave.

The idea that a switcher in the corner has you covered feels safe, and it is wrong. By the time someone reaches for it, they are already looking at a page they cannot read, and a small control most people never notice does not undo that. And the usual way sites guess a language, by reading the browser's language setting, gets it wrong constantly. It is often left on English or the device default regardless of what the person reads, it can be missing, and travelers or people on a borrowed phone get the wrong one.

So non-English shoppers land on English, or a half-translated page, and quietly disappear. CSA Research found 76% prefer to buy in their own language. They are already on your site. The experience sends them off before they say anything.

There is a better signal: where the visitor actually is. IPGeolocation.io's IP Location API tells you the country behind an IP, right at the first request, so you can serve the right language from the start instead of defaulting to English and hoping they switch. It also returns location details, country, region, and city, in about a dozen languages, so a "looks like you're in X" prompt, a store locator, or the country field at checkout read correctly too, without you keeping your own translated list of place names. And the same country tells you which regional store, currency, and shipping to show, which the words alone cannot.

One honest note: this picks the language and localizes the location info the API returns. It does not translate your site for you, and you should always let people switch, since some prefer English.

See how it works: https://ipgeolocation.io/ip-location-api.html

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