Varying Results for Geolocation of IP Tools
Case: I personally had a web site that needed Canadian web hosting so I could leverage the web site to an exclusively Canadian audience. I went with a host that touted everything Canadian. Turns out when I checked a month later the IP itself was NOT located in Canada, or was it….?
- I did a number of checks in free reverse IP tools online and had mostly the same results.
- SEO Book provides: https://visualroute.visualware.com/ which concluded the IP in question was in the US
- Another tools I checked https://www.ip2location.com/free.asp concluded US IP location.
- Firefox plugin in tool also suggested an IP in the US
- However, https://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_ip provided a different result going further behind the generated IP.
Netfirms attested that they were Canadian to the core but admitted they have IP pools from US telecommunication firms. The question is, how far does Google seek? Maxmind DID see the Canadian IP, the rest did not….. It’s an important question as it determines opens the door to a world behind what webmasters usually search.
https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-google-defines-ip-delivery.html Google does a lot with IP delivery, in this case I wasn’t concerned about IP deliver as I was IP location. But nonetheless I included the link for your information.