Continuing on from our discussion in this post: The lie in their WHOIS: IP geolocation reporting explored - General - IPinfo Community
Please let me know if you are interested in receiving location information regarding the reported vs. actual location of a certain ASN or VPN. I have created scripts that will be helpful in determining the quality of the ASN as a hosting/cloud provider and VPN for location information.
Example of a random ASN
(Left) Actual Location: US
(Right) Reported Location according to WHOIS records
| ipinfo_country | whois_country | ip_count | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | US | NL | 26572 |
| 1 | US | DE | 1024 |
| 2 | US | SC | 256 |
| 3 | US | ES | 256 |
(Left) Actual Location
(Right) Reported Location according to WHOIS records: SC - Seychelles
| ipinfo_country | whois_country | ip_count | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | NL | SC | 322048 |
| 1 | PL | SC | 13824 |
| 2 | FI | SC | 5376 |
| 3 | IT | SC | 5376 |
| 4 | NO | SC | 1536 |
| 5 | CZ | SC | 1536 |
| 6 | DE | SC | 1536 |
| 7 | BE | SC | 1536 |
| 8 | AT | SC | 1024 |
| 9 | ES | SC | 1024 |
| 10 | SE | SC | 1024 |
| 11 | CH | SC | 1024 |
| 12 | FR | SC | 256 |
| 13 | AE | SC | 256 |
| 14 | US | SC | 256 |
| 15 | PH | SC | 256 |
Please feel free to leave a comment on a particular ASN you want us to look into. I am using WHOIS records as a proxy for geofeed. For VPNs, I will do the same. VPNs could advertise some location in their app, so please leave the advertised location of some of the IP addresses.