[members-discuss] My Question To All LIR Members

I have already gone through the process of informing them, using their 
corrections form on their website, and pleading with them to update 
their database. For years, this worked just fine. They used to be a very 
cooperative company. Starting last week, they began marking huge 
sections of my ip addresses as anonymous proxies and completely removing 
any country information from them. Then these inaccuracies were then 
sold to all their clients and now sections of my ip ranges are all 
screwed up now and as a direct result of that, I lose business in my 
line of work. Here is the response I received from them after a very 
long email to them:

Dear Mr. Twyler,

As you're aware, we endeavor to provide accurate IP geolocation of 
Internet end-users and to identify proxies where possible in our IP 
intelligence products. We may not accept corrections to our data where 
we believe they do not increase the accuracy of our IP geolocation or 
improve proxy identification.
If you'd like to communicate with our legal counsel, we invite you to 
email legal at maxmind.com.

Regards,
Jason Ketola
V.P., Operations

This response would have been tolerable had I been a proxy supplier. 
However I am not. And this company is completely unwilling to reconsider 
my case, even though I've informed them that they are causing me a 
massive loss of business by doing this.


On 2014-05-28 09:10, Dpto. Datos Television Costa Blanca wrote:
> Hi Jared,
> 
> What do you mean exactly?
> MaxMind != RIR
> 
> MaxMind is only a company who sell geolocation services based on IP 
> Address.
> Being member of a RIR is a completely different thing.
> 
> Also, whats wrong on the maxmind geo database?
> 
> I have updated several IP blocks on Ripe Database and maxmind updated 
> it.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> El 28/05/2014 8:55, admin at intl-alliance.com escribió:
>> Here is a question I propose to all RIPE NCC LIR members:
>> 
>> What is the point in remaining a LIR member of the RIPE NCC if private
>> companies like www.maxmind.com do not have to adhere to the data 
>> that’s
>> officially published in the NCC ip address database? If private
>> companies are allowed to produce their own ip databases based on
>> information not obtained in the official NCC database, why continue on
>> with membership here? It seems pointless if a private company can
>> completely ignore a LIR database, produce and then sell faulty 
>> databases
>> to thousands of websites.
>> 
>> Jared Twyler
>> Chief Executive Officer
>> IAPS Security Services, L.L.C.
>> Skype: iaps_support
>> FB: http://www.facebook.com/iapscorp
>> Blog: http://www.jareds-blog.com
>> Web: http://www.intl-alliance.com/store
>> 
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