IP2location Perl Module
This Perl module provides fast lookup of country, region, city, latitude, longitude, ZIP code, time zone, ISP, domain name, connection type, IDD code, area code, weather station code and station, MCC, MNC, mobile carrier brand, elevation, usage type, IP address type, IAB advertising category, district, AS number and AS name from IP address using IP2Location database. It supports all IP addresses in IPv4 and IPv6.
This module can be used in many types of projects such as:
auto-select the geographically closest mirror server
analyze web server logs to determine the countries of visitors
credit card fraud detection
software export controls
display native language and currency
prevent password sharing and abuse of service
geotargeting in advertisement
Free IP2Location LITE and commerical databases are available for download.
LITE database is available at https://lite.ip2location.com (Free with limited accuracy)
Commercial database is available at https://www.ip2location.com (Comprehensive with high accuracy)
Monthly update is available for both IP2Location LITE and commercial database.
