Founder & CEO of IPinfo
Joined April 2009
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9 May 2025
We're launching @IPinfo Lite - taking some of our most essential data fields (country level geolocation and basic ASN data) and making them available completely free, without restriction, via both an unlimited API, and a download (JSON, CSV, MMDB and Parquet all available).
While IPinfo Lite only includes a subset of all of the data we offer, there's no compromise to the data quality, or the refresh rate.
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Mar 20
This is a really common misconception. That’s definitely how most legacy geolocation providers do it, but it’s not how we do things at @ipinfo - our geolocation is based on evidence and network observations, not on guesswork or outdated Whois data.
Mar 20
GeoIP databases are based on guessing the location of IP blocks. It's primarily based on outdated WHOIS data and the assumption that the location of the company is the location of the IP addresses. It's highly imprecise for finer-grained location than the country level.
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13 Dec 2025
Join the conversation at news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
See the original post at ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-…
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9 Dec 2025
A lot of VPNs claim they’re in 100 countries.
So we checked.
Out of 20 major providers, only 3 actually operate in all the places they claim!
Three. Props to @windscribecom, @mullvadnet and @ivpnnet
More research and results aound this coming soon!
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6 Oct 2025
Just back from an incredible week in Croatia with over 50 of the @ipinfo team.
Amazing how much energy and creativity come from spending time together in person. Between the strategy sessions, boat trips, and late-night conversations, we left with new ideas, stronger connections, and a renewed sense of the opportunity ahead.
Already looking forward to the next one!
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20 Aug 2025
We now show a recently collected traceroute for every ASN and bgp prefix on our website. Real data, collected from our ProbeNet. More coming soon!
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30 Jul 2025
We now show the SSID and Airport info for major airport public WiFi IPs on the @ipinfo website - eg. ipinfo.io/198.134.98.50
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26 Jul 2025
Paul has had an incredible impact at IPinfo over the past 3 years as COO, but we’re just getting started. Couldn’t be more excited for this next chapter, with us both as Co-CEOs.
24 Jul 2025
Leadership Update: We’re excited to announce that Paul Heywood has been appointed Co-CEO, joining Founder and Co-CEO Ben Dowling as we continue to build, scale, and push what’s possible with IP data.
From product to go-to-market, this partnership reflects our belief that the strongest companies are built on shared vision, complementary strengths, and bold execution.
Ben shares more in this blog post → ipinfo.io/blog/introducing-i…
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24 Apr 2025
Having a lot of fun playing @reincdr's vibe coded IP location guessing game!
24 Apr 2025
IPguessr from @IPinfo updates! (abdullahdevrel.github.io/ipg…)
- Changed URL from IPinfoguessr to IPguessr
- Added a button to confirm the submission of IP
- Added a result for each IP address submission
- Switched from ChatGPT to Github Copilot for #vibecoding
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14 Feb 2025
The @ipinfo probe network just crossed 400 cities! We're now at 929 servers, in 127 countries.
Every new server we add helps drive further improvements to the quality and accuracy of our data, and provides deeper insights into what the internet looks like from the perspective of that server.
We're now less than 5ms from 70% of all ASNs, and 20ms from 95%.
Here's what our probe network looks like today:
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28 Nov 2024
Love this! Fun example from Seattle to Pyongyang
stefansundin.github.io/trace…
25 Nov 2024
Traceroute mapper is one of the coolest project I have discovered this month. You simply paste in your traceroute output, and you do not need any IPinfo token or anything. It just works it's magic.
stefansundin.github.io/trace…
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22 Sep 2024
Heading home to Seattle after an incredible week with 34 of the @ipinfo team in Milan. Our 3rd annual team retreat, and definitely our best yet. Looking forward to next year already!
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5 Sep 2024
A few years ago I placed an order for a small @ipinfo logo wall decal from @customink but I messed up the dimensions, so since then I've had a huge logo on my wall, which has made for a cool zoom background (recently joined by my @TeleGeography submarine cable map).
We recently updated our logo and I chose to intentionally go even bigger with the decal this time, and added our new tag line: The Internet Data Company.
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30 Jul 2024
Here's a map showing all the major internet links that we observe at @ipinfo
Based on weekly collection of 1.4Bn traceroutes from 700 servers worldwide, we get a fairly complete picture of the internet.
I find it fascinating how few major internet hubs there are outside of the US and EU.
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30 Jul 2024
Here's a close up of the US.
Major hubs include New York, Ashburn, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, Phoenix, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles.
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30 Jul 2024
Here's a close up of Africa, which has barely any visble links on the global map. Major hubs in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Egypt.
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