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Would you consider no-signup inspection of the data you hold on the requesters IP address? I would love to see what you have on MY IP address, and if sufficiency accurate it feels that it would be a good incentive to sign up to use commerically.

It feels like it couldn't be abused by 'freeloaders', because i'd guess their use-case is viewing other peoples.

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We have a very open approach to our data. In fact, our website is extremely accessible. It is quite useful for researching IP addresses and does not require signing up. The data is largely available to view on the website. Although we display all IP address meta data on the home page, if you intend to use our website frequently, I recommend utilizing the IP data pages.

You can enter IP addresses on the right side to look up information here: https://ipinfo.io/what-is-my-ip

Additionally, we offer some enjoyable tools that you can use here: https://ipinfo.io/tools

The CLI tool is particularly entertaining.

You can also use our API service without signing up, with a limit of 1000 requests per day.

If you do choose to sign up for a free account, you will receive 50,000 requests per month, free IP databases, a bulk lookup feature, and more.

This is literally the most prominent thing on the https://ipinfo.io home page.

That's embarrassing for me... I thought that was a static image of an example. And I did look through the site looking for a search. Oops.

Huh, that's cool. It got my home IP about 15 miles from where I am, but still not bad.

Wait - how does this work for cell IPs? A lot of cellphone v4 IPs are now shared between hundreds or thousands of devices, right?

I work there, and I am supposed to know these things, but I don't exactly :/

It probably has something to do with important routers. What tags do we show when you visit the IP data page? The IP data page can be accessed by visiting ipinfo.io/<IP_address>.

We use the generic term "data experts," but it actually consists of about 2 dozen engineers, including data engineers, data scientists, infrastructure engineers, backend engineers, and a great technical CEO working on all that. All those folks have gone on a boating trip off the coast of Spain for a retreat.....except for me.

I will ask them and try to circle back with some answers.

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