The best geotargeting database available?
 

Who has the best/most accurate one on the market right now?

hey pr0,

I've been researching this myself the past week. It's between maxmind and ip2location. I'm getting conflicting reports but it sounds like maxmind might be a little more on it. For my location at least they are bang on and ip2location is just a tad off.

Even with this I think I am going to go with ip2location as the support for .NET is not the greatest with maxmind. Price seems better too.

Id be interested in hearing what sort of conclusion you come to as well.

Cheers,

really so support for asp.net sucks with maxmind?

i wonder why, its just a database

www.maxmind.com
probably not thhahaha233; most accurate, but it's what i use.

the only thing that sucks is that they don't have an API for the full featured city, region, country, isp database - if they did I would purchase the product. They do have an API in C# that I believe only works with the country database. If thats your needs then you are ok

The API access their binary format db rather than connecting to an actual sql db. Its no small coding job and I don't feel like programming it myself.

the php support looked good from what i remember

hope that helps

Just because the documentation doesn't mention a .NET API for the city/state/regional database doesn't mean it doesn't exist. At the time we were installing our geo-targetting system there was absolutely no mention of a Perl API anywhere on their site, but it did exist.

ive seen the one that aff uses, but i think u pay per pageviews.

I use maxmind.

I use ip2location, seemed to be more accurate.

if you hear of one please let me know! .. I contacted them and maxmind does not have one themselves, altho I would be suprised as well if nobody has developed it .. they told me its on their "todo" list and would not confirm a date but mentioned its not going to be anytime overly soon

We are using IP2Location .NET and COM DLL and pretty accurate so far.

yea i'm looking to use maxmind, i guess my programmer is gonna need to form some sort of program to interface since he's using asp.net

Both are good. I use maxmind tho(my sig is the old free maxmind DB, the paid is more accurate)

However, targetting a surfer by city is kinda impossible. I mean, my ISP is in another city. When I visit some GEO sites, they say, you are from ISP city :)

Andre

I just did maxmind and the city it said that I am in I am miles from although it is picking up where my ISP is.

hey pr0 ... they have a basic API in C# .. I guess it depends on whether your programmer is going to do it in C# or vb.net ....and what features of the DB you wish to use (city, region, country etc) .. the API is done for only country I believe..

either way I am looking for the same product .. I might be interested in giving you some $$ for the API once your programmer is done ... let me know if that interests you ..

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