[90298] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geo location to IP mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Pawloski)
Mon May 15 13:49:11 2006
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:45:08 -0700
From: "Kevin Pawloski" <kpawloski@gmail.com>
To: "Brian Wallingford" <brian@meganet.net>
Cc: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@renesys.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0605151256480.8696@evccyr>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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IP location services are a niche service, they won't work in the broad sens=
e
of things. Sites that need to make lawyers happy, such as MLB.com will work
well with IP location services. MLB.Com basically says they won't broadcast
Dodger home games in the LA area on their website. (Or any team in their
home market) Obviously there are ways to hide your location, but as long as
the services offers reasonable results there will be demand for these
services. Remember most of these IP location services were originally
founded for advertisting reasons, not anti-fraud.
Kevin
On 5/15/06, Brian Wallingford <brian@meganet.net> wrote:
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>
> I'm not quite comfortable with the idea of building a market audience
> based on data with at best dubious accuracy.
>
> On Mon, 15 May 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote:
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> :At 12:49 PM 5/15/2006, Brian Wallingford wrote:
> :
> :><cough> scam_snake_oil_etc </cough>
> :
> :
> :How so?
>
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IP location services are a niche service, they won't work in the broad sens=
e of things. Sites that need to make lawyers happy, such as MLB.com will wo=
rk well with IP location services. MLB.Com basically says they won't broadc=
ast Dodger home games in the LA area on their website. (Or any team in thei=
r home market) Obviously there are ways to hide your location, but as long =
as the services offers reasonable results there will be demand for these se=
rvices. Remember most of these IP location services were originally founded=
for advertisting reasons, not anti-fraud.
<br><br>Kevin<br><br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 5/15/06, <b class=
=3D"gmail_sendername">Brian Wallingford</b> <<a href=3D"mailto:brian@meg=
anet.net">brian@meganet.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class=3D"gmail=
_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt=
0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I'm not quite comfortable with the idea of building a market audience<b=
r>based on data with at best dubious accuracy.<br><br>On Mon, 15 May 2006, =
Martin Hannigan wrote:<br><br>:At 12:49 PM 5/15/2006, Brian Wallingford wro=
te:
<br>:<br>:><cough> scam_snake_oil_etc </cough><br>:<br>:<br>=
:How so?<br></blockquote></div><br>
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