We offer GeoIP and minFraud web services. Our web services are based on the HTTP protocol. There are no databases or software to install.

GeoIP Country Web Service
Our GeoIP Country web service is easy to set up and use. You simply pass an IP Address, and our server returns the ISO 3166 code for that country. Note that the queries never expire, there is no time limit to when you can use the queries.
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GeoIP City/ISP/Organization Web Service
Our GeoIP City web service is also easy to set up and use, and it returns region code, city, metropolitan code, area code, latitude, longitude, ISP, and organization as well as country. Note that the queries never expire, there is no time limit to when you can use the queries.
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GeoIP Omni Web Service
Our GeoIP Omni web service is easy to set up and use, and it returns country code, country name, region code, region name, city name, latitude, longitude, metropolitan code, area code, time zone, continent code, postal code, ISP, organization, domain, AS number, netspeed, user type, accuracy radius, and confidence factors for country, city, region, and postal code. Note that the queries never expire, there is no time limit to when you can use the queries.
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Standard minFraud Service queries
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Premium minFraud Service queries
The Premium Paid Service returns the BIN Country, Name and Phone instead of just whether the BIN Country matches.

BIN Country and Bank Name Service queries
This service returns the BIN Country, Name and Phone based on a Bank Identification Number. Our BIN database is about 99% complete for the BIN Country, 96% complete for the BIN Name, and 75% complete for BIN Phone.

Proxy Detection queries
This service returns a proxyScore indicating whether an IP address is a known anonymous or open proxy server.
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Our services have had 99.97% uptime since October 2002, and we have a backup servers available.

For the GeoIP web service, we have two datacenters: one on the US east coast and one on the US west coast. The geoip.maxmind.com hostname will automatically connect you to the closest datacenter. If you wish to address a datacenter directly, or you wish to set up a backup server, you may address them directly with the geoip-us-east.maxmind.com and geoip-us-west.maxmind.com hostnames.

For the minFraud service we also have two datacenters: one on the US east coast and one on the US west coast. The minfraud.maxmind.com hostname will automatically connect you to the closest datacenter. If you wish to address a datacenter directly, or you wish to set up a backup server, you may address them directly with the minfraud-us-east.maxmind.com and minfraud-us-west.maxmind.com hostnames.

We send out a warning e-mail to purchase more queries when the number of queries remaining reaches 10,000, and another e-mail if you run out of queries. You may set up a plan where you will be automatically billed for more queries if you run low by selecting one of the plans above and clicking on "Add auto-renewal" on the cart page.