How to request an IP location correction from each geolocation database
Corrections work best when you send one clear request with evidence, to the right place, after asking your ISP to fix its own feed.
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Send your ISP the first request (its geofeed is read by every major database), then file corrections with the vendors that are wrong: MaxMind and IPinfo have correction pages, DB-IP has a contact page, and Google has a form for when your IP makes Google show the wrong country. Include your IP, the date, the wrong and the right location, and expect weeks, not days.
Start with your ISP
Every database builds on the same few inputs, and the strongest is the ISP’s own geofeed, the RFC 8805 file that maps its address ranges to places.[5] If your ISP corrects that file, the databases that read it can all pick up the fix, which no single vendor correction does. Databases find the file through the ISP’s registry record (RFC 9632), so the ISP is the only party that can fix it at the source.[6]
Where to send corrections
| Database | Where | What it says |
|---|---|---|
| MaxMind | Its GeoIP location correction page | You need a free account or must verify your email before review. It warns your own IP “may be frequently reallocated or shared”.[1] |
| IPinfo | Its corrections page | A dedicated page for location corrections.[2] |
| DB-IP | Its contact page | We found no dedicated correction form at our check; use the contact page.[3] |
| Its IP problem report form | For when your IP makes Google products show content for the wrong country. Google says updates can take over a month and it doesn’t reply individually.[4] |
Vendors not on this list usually publish a contact address on their site. If you don’t know which database a site uses, ask the site’s support; it’s a reasonable question.
What to include
- Your public IP address exactly as a lookup shows it, and whether it’s IPv4 or IPv6.
- The date and time you checked, with your time zone.
- The wrong location the database gives and the right one: city, region, country. Don’t send a street address; databases work at city level and you don’t need to share more.
- Your ISP and, if you know it, that the ISP publishes a geofeed and what it says for your range.
A short message you can adapt:
Set your expectations
- Timing. Vendors publish updated data on their own schedule, and sites refresh their copy later still. Google’s form says more than a month is possible.[4]
- Reassignment. Your address may change, and the next customer may be somewhere else. MaxMind says as much on its own form.[1] This is why the ISP’s feed, which describes the whole range, is the better fix.
- City, not street. No database will place you more precisely than a city, and none should.
Collect your evidence
The evidence report records your IP, each source’s value and the date, ready to paste into a correction.
Create an evidence reportSources
- GeoIP location correction · MaxMindChecked 5 Oct 2026
- IP data corrections · IPinfoChecked 5 Oct 2026
- Contact · DB-IPChecked 5 Oct 2026
- Report an IP address problem with Google products · Google Search HelpChecked 5 Oct 2026
- RFC 8805: A Format for Self-Published IP Geolocation Feeds (Aug 2020) · IETF / RFC EditorChecked 5 Oct 2026
- RFC 9632: Finding and Using Geofeed Data (Aug 2024) · IETF / RFC EditorChecked 5 Oct 2026