New release-IP2Location.com provides free services to block and deny visitors from certain countries

Aug. 31, 2010 - PRLog -- IP2Location is a geolocation database product that enables web sites to identify the location of Internet customers and other geographical information. The database is used to match an incoming IP address to the country, region, state, city, latitude, longitude, zip code, Internet service provider (ISP), time zone, connection speed, domain name, IDD country code, area code and weather station of the internet user. IP2Location™ gives websites the ability to customize and localize the content of their websites in order to serve their customers better, such as displaying native languages and currency, redirecting web pages based on geographical  location, spam filtering by location, reducing credit card frauds, preventing password sharing and much more. It also provides digital rights with the purpose to restrict users' access to movies, music, software, literature and other forms of digital data.

IP2Location now would like to demonstrate how to block visitors from other countries from visiting your websites. One of the highly recommended ways will be with the help of a special control file named .htaccess file in Apache Web Server. Before you can use the .htaccess to block the unwanted traffics from certain country, you will need to know the IP range for that particular country. Then, apply them to .htaccess file. For the example below, we deny traffics from Argentina. The content should be looked like below:


order deny,allow
deny from 24.232.0.0/18
deny from 24.232.64.0/20
deny from 24.232.80.0/22
deny from 24.232.84.0/24
deny from 24.232.86.0/23
deny from 24.232.88.0/21
deny from 216.245.212.64/28
allow from all


Please feel free to visit ip2location.com for the free blocking by country service at http://www.ip2location.com/blockvisitorsbycountry.aspx. It helps to generate the .htaccess information instantly with the IP range and also it allows user to select the output format, whether is Apache htaccess allow, Apache htaccess deny, Linux IPTables, or CIDR. For registered user, they can generate up to 30 countries at one time.

The IP2Location database has more than 6 million records to cover all valid IP addresses. It has over 99 percent matching accuracy at the country level. Available from US$49 per year, the database is available for immediate download, bundled with free monthly updates for 12 months. The database is in an easy-to-use ASCII text format and is compatible with major database programs including Microsoft SQL, MySQL, Microsoft Access, Oracle, IBM DB2 and others. A free demo is available online at http://www.ip2location.com.

About IP2Location.com

Founded in 2001, IP2Location.com provides Internet infrastructure intelligence services to online businesses. IP2Location.com’s products provide the geographical location of Web site visitors in real-time, enabling businesses to display localized content, enable bandwidth balancing, improve click-through, improve sales, prevent fraud, conduct site analysis and foster regulatory compliance. With over 500 industry leading customers, IP2Location.com is the geolocation market leader. IP2Location.com’s main headquarters is located in Penang, Malaysia, with regional sales office located in Florida, United States.

The company can be reached by fax at +1-941-240-2105, by email at sales@ip2location.com, and on the Web at http://www.ip2location.com.

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