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ip2.cc an alternative to hostip.info

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Simon Schönbeck

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I have used the API of hostip.info for long time to resolve IP addresses to country codes or country names. The web service has been hit by some severe downtime lately returning “500 – Internal Server Error” for any calls including both API and website page requests. As of now hostip.info has been down and unreachable for several days in a row, with no signs of coming up in the near future. Perhaps the maintainer is on holiday or something…

I manage several applications depending on this web service so I started searching for an alternative solution to lookup IP addresses. I did not find anything suitable so I decided to launch my own free IP to country lookup API instead.

This new web service can be found at ip2.cc (IP to Country Code) for everyone to use.

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3 responses to “ip2.cc an alternative to hostip.info”

  1. Eyal Gurevitch avatar
    Eyal Gurevitch

    http://ip2.cc isn’t working anymore!

    Reply
  2. Eyal Gurevitch avatar
    Eyal Gurevitch

    Thanks! It was a long time ago that you posted this,
    but hostip.info is acting now like it did then.
    I’ll be giving your code a try, thanks a lot!

    Reply
  3. Victor avatar
    Victor

    Thank you…more accurate than hostip

    Reply

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