How are you contacting them? If you use the correct abuse contact you'll usually get a response. We (IPinfo.io) are adding abuse contact info to our API within the next week or so (see https://twitter.com/ipinfoio/status/1138901541937602560) - let me know if you'd like early access.
The only type of service providers I've ever had useful responses from are email/mailing-list service providers, many of which will very quickly investigate and terminate spammers.
We have 2 engineers at IPinfo.io that have ~30 hour jobs, and I'm sure they'd be interested in talking. Email me at ben@ipinfo.io and I can out you in touch. We're also open to hiring more people with similar hours!
It doesn't seem odd given the context of the full paragraph, which starts:
> Still, the numbers/letters divide is emblematic of the Internet’s built-in bias: Even more than two decades after its birth, it’s still a fundamentally American system.
It describes how URLs are frustrating and difficult to use for non-English speakers. Given that, it makes a joke about that frustration using the URL-hacks that are often used in China, which is what the whole prior article covers.
I get that the author wanted to express frustration and be clever, and he had limited examples of “number-based slang” to do so with, but I agree with the parent comment that calling Americans “idiots” and telling them to “go die” seems excessively hostile.
Though I also can’t imagine “go die” has the same force in Chinese that it would have in English if it’s a common slang.
That's my thought too. Apparently HN does not agree which I think is sad. It's interesting information in the article, but being hostile just because the Internet was pioneered in the U.S. and thus a lot of U.S. customs are baked in seems excesive. I like anime, but I'm not hostile to the Japanese because the shows I like are spoken in Japanese with only English subtitles.
Anime isn’t deeply embedded in society the way the internet is now. Imagine if you had to learn some Japanese just to access your bank account or buy plane tickets.
I don’t mean imagine if you had to do that in order to live in those countries. I mean, imagine if you had to do that in the US, to access your American bank down the street.
I started https://ipinfo.io as a side project, and then ran it fulltime as a one-person SaaS app for over a year. We're now a team of 8, profitable, and growing quickly. We're still 100% bootstrapped, and I have zero plans to raise any outside funding.
We started with a simple IP geolocation API, which now handles over 20 billion API requests per month. We've added new data to that service, such as IP type classification (hosting, isp, or business, and soon education too), IP to company, and carrier detection. And we've also launched some other products, like hosted domain API (all domains hosted on an IP, sometimes called reverse IP), IP ranges belonging to an organization, and an ASN API. We've got a lot in the pipeline too, including some domain related offerings (see https://host.io for an early preview).
So it's definitely possible :) What sort of SaaS product are you thinking of launching? Would be happy to chat! Shoot me an email at ben@ipinfo.io
Yeah, accuracy definitely varies by ISP, and region. If you'd be willing to share your IP or ISP with me (ben@ipinfo.io) I'd love to look into it and see what we might have been able to do / be able to do in the future to get a more precise location for you.
Read an article where people were coming to people's houses demanding their phone etc. because the location for that "region" was mapped to their backyard.
Really appreciated your service at my last company, and I recognize some of how hard what you do really is. In my case you're over 400 miles off. That's not a complaint; I'm amazed at how much you manage to get right.
Sometimes it's even required. I traveled to Nigeria from the US (on a British passport) and needed to turn up to the visa appointment with proof of flights and accommodation.
If you're looking for an IP geolocation API you should also check us out at https://ipinfo.io - we're free for up to 1k req/day, handle over 12 billion requests per month, and have been around for over 6 years. You can play with our data on our homepage, and for the free plan you don't even need a token, just `curl ipinfo.io`
We also have APIs to get IP ranges for companies, to get domains hosted on the same IP, and more. See https://ipinfo.io/developers
Scare the landlords, then walk it back and get a great deal.
This is how the conversation with the landlord would probably go:
Tesla: We're going to close our store in your mall.
Landlord: Good luck with that. Next month's rent is due in a week.
Tesla: But we're closing our store...
Landlord: You signed a multi-year lease without an early cancellation clause. I don't care if you're closing the store, you still owe me rent for the remainder of the lease. You can pay it as due or buy out your for X% of the aggregate remaining amount. [where X is some obscenely large percentage approaching 100% because the landlord has Tesla over a barrel and doesn't need to offer a discount].
Their landlords are a large number of different entities each with their own areas and laws. This is not an effective way to negotiate with 100s of malls around the country.
IPinfo.io | Remote | BizDev / Sales / Growth / PM / Eng | Part time or Full time
I started https://ipinfo.io as a small side project a few years ago, and it has since grown to now handling over 12 billion API requests a month, we have thousands of customers, and we're used by hundreds of thousands of developers. See https://ipinfo.io/about for some more details, or read this interview I did a couple of years ago that has some of the backstory: https://getputpost.co/from-side-project-to-250-million-daily....
We're bootstrapped, profitable, and looking to add a couple of exceptional people to our team. If you're interested and think you could be a fit send an email to ben@ipinfo.io explaining why, and how you think you can help us!
IPinfo.io | Remote | Customer support / BizDev / Growth | Part time
I started https://ipinfo.io as a small side project a few years ago, and it has since grown to now handling over 12 billion API requests a month, we have thousands of customers, and we're used by hundreds of thousands of developers. See https://ipinfo.io/about for some more details, or read this interview I did a couple of years ago that has some of the backstory: https://getputpost.co/from-side-project-to-250-million-daily...
We're currently hiring for some remote part-time non-engineering roles (customer support, content, bizdev). If you're interested and think you could be a fit send an email to ben@ipinfo.io!
We use rdns hostname data as one of the data sources for our geolocation database at https://ipinfo.io, but some of the ML stuff here is definitely interesting, and we'll be looking integrating some of the more novel techniques covered here!
