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Thanks for your interest in GoBank. We’re sorry, but we’re unable to complete your membership request right now.

Thank you for IP blocking me from visiting your home page, because as everyone knows US residents never travel. I also think it's a little bit presumptuous and certainly not very RESTful to assume that navigating to gobank.com is equivalent to a "membership request", especially for a supposed bank.

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Thank you for IP blocking me from visiting your home page, because as everyone knows US residents never travel.

Not to mention that non-US residents (e.g. reporters, bloggers, the curious) might be interested in taking a look at a service even if it's unavailable to them.

Seems quite bizarre to say "NO!" quite so forcefully and get rid of all that potential chatter.

Good point; we can change it to make it clear you have to be a US resident to open an account but allow registration from other IPs.

IP detection is crap, too. I'm in California and while my IP sometimes gets detected as being from a few towns over, it's certainly still in the United States - but I'm blocked.

Fair enough: nobody can accuse you of not being responsive :)

Same problem. I'm in Hungary but that doesn't make me Hungarian, and my business is based in Indiana. If you want to appeal to this crowd you'd better be prepared to think a little harder about internationality.

right, we're in NYC and I can't access it either

Add a +1... Had to log in to my computer via LogMeIn to request an invite. Currently traveling in Nicaragua, but I'm a California resident.

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