IP address data for academics

What is IPinfo?

IPinfo builds and maintains its own proprietary internet measurement platform, using it to map public IP addresses to geolocation, company ownership, mobile carrier, and privacy status. The company positions itself as a trusted source for IP intelligence, and it backs that up with ProbeNet, a measurement network that runs continuous active verification from more than 1,000 points of presence worldwide. Instead of relying on static, self reported records, IPinfo processes terabytes of data to keep its datasets current.

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What academic researchers should know about IPinfo's IP address data

On Dewey, IPinfo's data spans four core datasets. The geolocation dataset maps billions of public IP ranges to city, region, country, postal code, coordinates, and timezone, refreshed every 24 hours through ProbeNet's active measurement. The privacy detection dataset flags whether an IP range is tied to hosting infrastructure, a proxy, a Tor exit node, a VPN, or a traffic relay, and it names the specific privacy service where one is detected, all built on an evidence based methodology that scans protocols and verifies exit node behavior directly rather than relying on static blocklists. The company dataset maps IP ranges to the organization that owns them, classifying each as an ISP, hosting provider, business, or educational institution, alongside the associated autonomous system. A fourth dataset resolves IP ranges to mobile carrier, country, and standard mobile network codes.

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Why academic researchers choose IPinfo on Dewey

IPinfo's measurement infrastructure typically serves security, fraud, and ad tech teams operating at commercial scale, and academic researchers who want to work with it usually have to arrange separate access outside their normal channels. On Dewey, that same evidence based, continuously verified data sits alongside dozens of other datasets, ready to query directly. That matters because IPinfo's approach differs meaningfully from geolocation providers that lean on compiled, static records: active measurement across a global probe network catches drift and decay that a snapshot database misses. Paired with Similarweb's web traffic data, IPinfo's IP data supports research connecting where traffic originates to where it goes. Paired with Rhetorik or Veridion, its company level ASN data supports research into the technology footprint and internet infrastructure behind specific firms.

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IPinfo academic research ideas and use cases

Digital divide and connectivity equity research can use the same geolocation and company datasets to compare infrastructure quality and internet allocation patterns across regions.

Privacy technology and anonymization research can use the privacy detection dataset to study how VPN, proxy, and Tor usage varies by region, by hosting provider, or over time, and how the prevalence of these privacy tools has shifted as consumer privacy tools have gone mainstream.

Cybersecurity and internet infrastructure researchers can use the company dataset's organization and ASN fields to study how traffic patterns differ across ISPs, hosting providers, and educational networks, or to build ground truth for detecting automated and bot originated traffic.

Telecom and mobile market researchers can use the mobile carrier dataset's country and network code fields to segment populations by carrier, study mobile infrastructure buildout, or examine how carrier level differences show up in downstream internet behavior.

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