On 06/12/2018 03:50 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:

> Record last updated a couple of weeks ago, if that's when the country
> change was made I think it would be unlikely for many geoloc providers to
> have picked it up by themselves without a prodding..
> 
>>     One specific problem you will have is that if people are using the old
>>     free MaxMind geolite database, there are *no* more updates, the last one
>>     available lists you in Bulgaria. So people using this will either need
>>     to pay for the commercial database (which still gets updates for a
>>     little while longer) or rewrite their code against the libmaxminddb
>>     API instead which is a lot more to ask of the site operator than "please
>>     update your database to the newest".. Consolation there is that this is
>>     likely to be small/less important sites.
> 
> btw, more info on this at
> https://blog.maxmind.com/2018/01/02/discontinuation-of-the-geolite-legacy-databases/

Looks like the Beeb and other UK broadcasters use this GeoIP provider:

https://www.digitalelement.com/bbc-deploys-digital-elements-ip-geolocation-technology-to-manage-online-content-rights/

Keith



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