IP Locator:Build History

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Build 4.0.0.47

Released March 2020

• Starting Friday, March 14, 2020, the returned latitude and longitude coordinates will be rounded to the second decimal place in order to be sensitive to user privacy.

Please keep in mind that Melissa’s internal methodology and data sources are not changing and you can remain confident in the accuracy of the returned response.

For example

Input IP: 12.203.219.6

Previously returned: "Latitude":"33.651200", "Longitude":"-117.594000"

Will now return: "Latitude":"33.65", "Longitude":"-117.59"

Build 4.0.0.45

Released May 2019

Major Update

• Global IP now accepts and verifies IP Addresses in IPv6 format:

aaaa:aaaa:aaaa:aaaa:aaaa:aaaa:aaaa:aaaa

Build 4.0.0.38

Released August 2018

Major Update

• The Web Service is now able to return the registered domain information tied to an IP Address by requesting the column: &cols=GRPDOMAININFO

The following are the new columns available:

DomainAddress1

DomainAdministrativeArea

DomainAgeEstimated

DomainAvailability

DomainCountry

DomainCountryCode

DomainCreatedDate

DomainEmail

DomainExpirationDate

DomainLocality

DomainName

DomainOrganization

DomainPostalCode

DomainPrivateProxy

DomainUpdatedDate

Build 4.0.0.33

Released April 2018

Major Update

• New Column: DST

This column returns a flag indicating whether the location of the IP Addresses observers Daylight Savings Time.

• New columns: TimeZoneName and TimeZoneCode

This column returns the time zone information for the location of the IP Address globally.

TimeZoneCode: "EST",

TimeZoneName: "Eastern Time",

Build 4.0.0.29

Released March 2017

• Added two new response fields, ProxyType and ProxyDescription
  • ProxyType reflects the proxy the IP is currently using, if any.
  • ProxyDescription gives a short description of the proxy of the IP.

• Added new result code IS03, which represents that the IP is currently under a proxy.

Build 1.0.0.0

Released December 2015

• Initial Release