FREE IP to Country Hosted Services

[smartgeek]

SMARTgeek are pleased to announce the launch of our new IP to Geographic Location.
This Lite service gives limited access to our complete IP to Country technology.

To access this FREE service you'll need to use the following code (example uses PHP) ...

$tags = get_meta_tags('http://www.smartgeek.co.uk/geo/smartip.php?ip=68.3.196.148');

Complete list of meta tags and sample output ...

<meta name="IP ADDRESS" content="68.3.196.148">
<meta name="COUNTRY ID" content="254">
<meta name="COUNTRY" content="United States">
<meta name="CURRENCY" content="US Dollar ">
<meta name="CERTAINTY" content="99%">

To display the information use ...

print $tags['country']; // country name

Further information on the use of GET_META_TAGS with PHP see http://uk.php.net/get_meta_tags

[LP-Trel]

This is really a cool service, I can integrate this into my signup system fairly easily.. what sort of paid options are available to expand on this?

[Plead]

Hey that is pretty cool, I have no use for it but I have never seen anything like it.

[LP-Trel]

Hey that is pretty cool, I have no use for it but I have never seen anything like it.

You could "ban" users from certain countries from requesting with their service. :) That is at least one good user I can think of for it as is.

[Plead]

You could "ban" users from certain countries from requesting with their service. :) That is at least one good user I can think of for it as is.
Yeah I figured that much myself, still means that I don't have a use for it :P

[smartgeek]

What would you like us to provide and how much would it be worth to you?

Would you want to pay per request(s), fixed monthly fee - how much should we charge?

[7de5igns]

Nice interesting service. I say a fixed monthly fee is best.

[LP-Trel]

What would you like us to provide and how much would it be worth to you?

Would you want to pay per request(s), fixed monthly fee - how much should we charge?

Well in your metadata provided there I don't see a city with it. That would be one improvement. If you could faciliate somehow a proxy check against proxy dnsbl to say proxy yes/no. That would be good too.

I'd pay per lookup or per month. This service seems very useful. :)

[Alfarin]

wow, great service! Thanks!
If you do decide to charge, I'd suggest fixed monthly fee; but do keep in mind that there are other companies out there that offers the full database for a fixed price. So make sure you don't exceed that price so people with lower budget can still use your service instead of just purchasing the database!

[freerackspace.org]

This service looks excellent, I will definetely think about intergrating it into my free hosting business website to stop a few scam prone countries from applying.