Changelog

4th February 2025

• Added is_satellite field to the API and updated the documentation accordingly

25th January 2025

• Added is_eu_member, calling_code, and currency_code fields to the location object in the API and updated the documentation accordingly
• Updated the documentation page in general

22th January 2025

• Bad actors started attacking ipapi.is with a botnet. Our own ipapi.is data plus some JavaScript was used to detect and ban suspicious IP addresses.
• The quality of the IP to Company database was systematically improved.
• The IP to VPN database was also improved.

22th November 2024

• Added new IP Tools: IP to Number Converter, IP Range to CIDR Converter, and IPv6 Expander / Collapser
• Added "Cyber Security First" section on ipapi.is frontpage
• Restructured the IP to VPN database, it contains now three different datasets, separated by data accuracy

3th October 2024

• Better VPN enumeration for the most prominent providers (MullvadVPN, ExpressVPN, NordVPN)
• More accurate abuser data, added many sources and removed some deprecated sources
• New blog article about ipinfo.io Alternative

30th August 2024

• New ipapi.is logo
• New blog article about IP to Company Accuracy
• Added new product: IP to Company Database for 89$ per month
• Updated all IP to Company data and started adding CustName data from ARIN

17th July 2024

• Improved backend experience, generating now receipts for billing for all payment methods
• Improve the is_abuser data quality
• Added previously unknown hosting ranges to the API
• Wrote blog article about systematically comparing ipapi.is to its competitors
• Updated the service terms

29th May 2024

• Added key numbers to ipapi.is frontpage
• Geocoding addresses with openstreetmap.org now
• Added three more VPN providers to the VPN enumeration pipeline

19th May 2024

• Add the abuse object to the API output
• Improved Geolocation Accuracy (Added more geofeed files to the API)
• Geocoding WHOIS addresses with Google Maps API now (Better Accuracy)

8th May 2024

• Fixed new ipapi.is logo
• Added VPN Exit Nodes from IPVanish to the API
• Fixed design on iPhones and Safari

7th May 2024

• Improved the dark mode CSS design
• Created a new SVG logo for ipapi.is
• Added improved API update functionality to reduce downtimes when updating the API
• Added thousands of VPN exit nodes to the API (Including NordVPN, Mullvad, ProtonVPN, IPVanish)

9th March 2024

• Updated the IP to Hosting Database page
• Added millions of new networks to the WHOIS scraping pipeline in order to improve geolocation accuracy
• Improved hosting detection accuracy
• Improved geolocation accuracy

30th January 2024

• Added abuser_score to the API
• Added a lot of threat intelligence feeds to the API to make the is_abuser field more accurate
• Published a list of the 5000 most abusive networks of the Internet
• Published a list of the 1000 most abusive ASNs of the Internet

21th January 2024

• IP to ASN database can now be purchased for 49$ per month
• Website was spell checked and grammatically improved
• The backend documentation is substantially improved
• Hosting Detection accuracy even better
• Improved Receipts

29th December 2023

• Better ASN type detection
• Automatic deactivation of subscriptions in case of non-payment
• Automatically adding data subscriptions
• Uploaded new database

26th December 2023

• Updated the FAQ on the website
• Updated the databases
• Added some admin tools on the backend of ipapi.is
• Improved the type classification substantially for the company and asn object

22th December 2023

• Unfortunately, there was an error in ASN data that originated from a invalid file names in crawled ASN WHOIS records. This error ocurred in the past 5 days. This error was fixed in this release.
• ASN data quality was improved and all ASN WHOIS records were freshly crawled.
• The database was updated.
• The ipapi.is FAQ and frontpage was updated.