What is the Maxmind IP Check Add-On?
Maxmind is an IP geolocation database and service provider, based in Malden, Massachusetts, United States. It sells several products, including GeoIP, minFraud, and Transactional Risk Analysis.
The most well known of their products is the GeoIP2 databases, which provide city, region, country, postal code, geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) and ISP and organization data associated with an IP address. Maxmind also offers a commercial service called MinFraud to reduce credit card fraud using this information.
Maxmind IP Check: Leveraging Geo-Location for Enhanced Security
Maxmind IP check is a competing product to Maxmind’s IP check and has gained significant market share in recent years. This is largely due to db-ip’s free and open source license. db-ip is an incredibly powerful tool with many more capabilities than Maxmind’s geoip2 data.
IPQualityScore is useful for a variety of reasons, but in some cases, you may need to enrich the data with more specific information. In these cases, the db-ip product is often preferable because it is more structured and contains more data for each record.
In addition to providing more precise data, db-ip provides additional fields such as continent code, European Union check, and more. This is a very important factor for some businesses that need to know whether their leads and customers are in the European Union.
This add-on enables you to use the MaxMind geolocation data in your store. The add-on also allows you to determine your customer’s language based on their country. To do this, you need to ensure that the required languages are installed in your store. You can do this by going to Administration – Languages – Manage Languages.