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Extracting the Country from the IP Address:- How To?

Introduction

Internet is vast & is spread across many countries & continents. Knowing the country of a visitor to your website can be a tedious task, if you don't know how to proceed.

The Need??
But firstly, the question that arises is why would you be interested in knowing the country of visitors to your website. The reasons can be many. Some of them are:
  • Displaying Geo-Specific Ads
  • Targetting Geo-Specific Visitors
  • Maintaining a Log of Visitors to the website
  • Displaying the website in local language
  • Re-directing the visitor to local website
  • Displaying Product Prices in Local Currencies
These are only a few reasons. There can be many more. However, you get the idea through these as to why you need to know the country of visitors to your website.

How??
Ok, you have the reason to know the country of your visitor, now the question is, how to proceed? How can you know the Country of your Visitor?

IP & the Country??
Every internet user has a unique IP address, or in other words, every computer connected to internet, has a unique IP address. IP address is a numerical address to refer to a computer. The example of an IP address is
120.36.162.75

Every ISP(Internet Service Provider) has been allocated a range of IP address which it can provide to its users. So, through an IP address, we can find out the country of the visitor.

Comments

  1. 16 hours ago

    Thanks for the comment..i really like this..

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  2. yesterday

    You can check Country, City, ZIP, Longitude and Latitude in C# and visual basic (VB.NET). There is source code for .NET GeoIP: http://tools.webmastermafia.com

    You can use it for FREE. It is very easy, just 2 lines of code.

  3. 08 Sep 2009 at 16:34

    thanks a lot...it would me more useful if you post it in VB.NET..or C# ..thanks in advance

  4. 08 Sep 2007 at 19:46

    I just wrote a lasted sample which describes how to get countries and city from IP address and  the sample contains a IP database.If you want to get the sample code,Please visite http://www.treaple.com/bbs/index.php or http://www.treaple.com/bbs/thread-17-1-1.html

  5. 02 Sep 2007 at 18:06

    First of all,you should get a database which includes all countries IP details.

    and then convert IP address to decimal   to find the exact country name by the decimal   .

  6. 02 Sep 2007 at 18:02

    I hope that this article can be used for you

    http://www.treaple.com/ArticlesDetails.aspx?id=55

    cheer.

  7. 03 May 2007 at 14:37

    Hi Guys,

    Though this is a brilliant piece of code, can u guys please explain that what are the datatypes used in the function ipAd2ipNum and also it gives me an error if i use the datatypes like integer, int32, int64...Please reply asap Rohit Smiley Face [:)]

  8. 11 Nov 2006 at 16:43

    Thanks a lot.Smiley Face [:)]Crying [:'(]

  9. 06 Jun 2006 at 19:07

    Hi,

    First i woud like to thank you fom the bottom of my heart, on this wounderful, well orginized article, it really helped me a lot, i have been looking for a one like this for a long time

    THANX A LOT

    btw, i guese you have forgotten about the database anyway,
    i'll do u simple favor for you and others as little return for this article

    the link for the latest CSV Values

    http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/downloads/ip-to-country.csv.zip

     

    Once again, Thanx a lot

     

    Best Regards

  10. 14 Nov 2005 at 12:30

    How to download the MS Access database?

  11. 28 Oct 2005 at 18:42

    If your wondering why "strIP = Request.ServerVariables("HTTPREMOTEADDR")" returns no IP address change it too "strIP = request.servervariables("REMOTE_ADDR")" and this will now work !

  12. 01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

    This thread is for discussions of Extracting the Country from the IP Address:- How To?.

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