I'm sorry but there are lots of use cases that require accurate IP geolocation.
DNS routing of users to the closest server in cases anycast is not doable or too expensive. Fighting abuse, a user claiming is from the USA, with a UK credit card and an IP resolved to China should at bare minimum be reviewed by a human. And of course there's plenty of legislation requiring the proper identification of user location to either require a local VAT number, show cookie banners, block adult content access and more. And hundreds more... I've looked into using geofeeds directly internally for some projects but most networks are not covered, or don't provide them to randoms like me or some outright lie to sell SEO IPs or charge more for rare hosting locations without having to actually have infrastructure there. So I don't really get the outrage here. On Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 14:16 Rich Kulawiec via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2026 at 10:25:56PM -0800, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote: > > Personally, I???ve always thought that IP Geolocation was a bad idea > > and nothing I???ve seen in the usage of it to date has changed my mind. > > Agree. We've spent decades trying to build a network that allows everyone > to access everything independent of geographical location, and now people > have come along with broken business models which demand that we abandon > this fundamental principle of the Internet in order to accomodate them. > > ---rsk > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TDHIXTY5LIPAF5DBXCX5GDSDBGPFEKW4/ > _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/O2WOICRFONJET6JXHW44G3ESZB6Z23XN/
