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Updates & Enhancements
How We Made Our MMDB Files a Third Smaller Without Changing a Byte of Data
8 days ago by Tiago Martins & Silvano Cerza — 6 min read
Venue Context in the Bid Request: IPinfo Places for AdTech
a month ago by Fernanda Donnini — 4 min read
Your IPinfo Databases Just Shrank by Up to 81%
2 months ago by Fernanda Donnini — 2 min read
The Next Level of Geo Data: Introducing IPinfo Places
2 months ago by Fernanda Donnini & Matthew Cooper — 7 min read
Every Network Lives Somewhere: Geolocation Maps Come to ASN Pages
3 months ago by Ben Dowling & Fernanda Donnini — 7 min read
Residential Proxy Detection, Now Self-Serve
4 months ago by Paul Heywood & Fernanda Donnini — 5 min read
Every Network Has a Heartbeat: Introducing ASN Activity Profiles
4 months ago by Ben Dowling & Fernanda Donnini — 5 min read
IPinfo Data, Where Developers Already Work: Introducing the IPinfo MCP Server
5 months ago by Fernanda Donnini — 4 min read
Q1 2026 Product Updates: ProbeNet Live, IPinfo Places, and More
5 months ago by Fernanda Donnini — 3 min read
Introducing IPinfo Places: Know the Venue Behind the IP
7 months ago by Fernanda Donnini — 4 min read
ProbeNet Live: Run Network Measurements from 150+ Countries
7 months ago by Abdullah — 7 min read
Residential Proxy Coverage Grows 250% Since Launch, Now Includes Datacenter IPs
a year ago by Fernanda Donnini — 3 min read
What's New at IPinfo: Q3 2025 Product Highlights
a year ago by Meghan Prichard — 1 min read
Never Lose Track of an IP Address Again: Introducing Starred IPs and Lookup History
a year ago by Fernanda Donnini — 3 min read
Introducing a New IP Tag: Hotel
a year ago by Fernanda Donnini — 4 min read
Introducing New IP Tags: Airport & Airplane
a year ago by Fernanda Donnini — 4 min read
IP Data, Engineered for Google Cloud: IPinfo Expands Presence with New Datasets for BigQuery
a year ago by Fernanda Donnini — 6 min read
Detect Residential Proxy Fraud With Our New API
a year ago by Fernanda Donnini — 5 min read
Introducing IPinfo Plus: High-Resolution IP Data for Confident Decisions
a year ago by Fernanda Donnini — 6 min read
Introducing IPinfo Core: 5 New Boolean Flags for IP Context
a year ago by Fernanda Donnini — 3 min read
Introducing IPinfo Lite: Free, Accurate, and Unlimited IP Data for Everyone
a year ago by Abdullah — 5 min read
Introducing the Portscan Tag
a year ago by Abdullah — 4 min read
What to Expect From Our Privacy Detection API
a year ago by Fernanda Donnini — 7 min read
Introducing Our New CIDR-Based IP Database Downloads
2 years ago by Abdullah — 5 min read
Stay Ahead of Fraud with Residential Proxy Detection
2 years ago by Ryan Foster — 5 min read
IPinfo updates for Apple's Private Relay launch
5 years ago by IPinfo Team — 3 min read
App Engine to Google Kubernetes Engine - a journey
5 years ago by IPinfo Team — 11 min read
Introduction to the IPinfo CLI
5 years ago by IPinfo Team — 4 min read
Better, Faster, Stronger dashboard.
5 years ago by IPinfo Team — 2 min read
Meet the official IPinfo CLI
5 years ago by IPinfo Team — 1 min read
Reducing IPinfo.io API latency 50x by making rDNS lookups blazingly fast
7 years ago by IPinfo Team — 9 min read
Give credit, get requests — double your free request limit to 100k/month!
7 years ago by IPinfo Team — 2 min read
Our downloadable IP WHOIS data sets are live!
7 years ago by IPinfo Team — 3 min read
Anonymization & Privacy
How to Detect Datacenter Proxies
2 months ago by Meghan Prichard — 9 min read
How VPNs and Residential Proxies Are Used in Abuse: Findings from 2026 RSAC Research
6 months ago by Daniel Quandt & Tiago Martins — 6 min read
What Makes an IP Look Like It’s Part of a Residential Proxy Pool
9 months ago by Abdullah — 2 min read
The Residential Proxy Problem: Shared Infrastructure and Rapid Rotation
9 months ago by Tiago Martins & Fernanda Donnini — 7 min read
How Everyday Users Unknowingly Become Part of Residential Proxy Networks
9 months ago by Abdullah — 3 min read
How VPNs Use ISP-Based IP Infrastructure
10 months ago by Fernanda Donnini — 5 min read
Why VPN Infrastructure Location Impacts Risk Scoring
10 months ago by Fernanda Donnini — 5 min read
How to Interpret IPinfo's VPN and Hosting Signals: A Classification Framework
a year ago by Daniel Quandt — 6 min read
VPN IP Data vs Proxy Data: Differences & Similarities
a year ago by Meghan Prichard — 8 min read
VPNs and IP Data: Understanding VPN Detection
a year ago by Meghan Prichard — 6 min read
The Role of VPN Detection in Preventing Fraud
a year ago by Meghan Prichard — 5 min read
How People Hide Their IPs and Why It Can Be Useful to Detect Them
2 years ago by Meghan Prichard — 7 min read
The Impact of Last-Digit IP Anonymization
2 years ago by Daniel Quandt — 7 min read
What Is a Relay Service and How Does It Work?
2 years ago by Abdullah — 3 min read
Masked IP addresses and digital rights management
5 years ago by IPinfo Team — 5 min read
Deep dive into privacy detection data and masked IPs
5 years ago by IPinfo Team — 4 min read
5 businesses who use privacy detection data well
5 years ago by IPinfo Team — 4 min read