How to find historical geolocation for an IP address, possibly using maxmind?

Question

I was wondering if there is a way to find historical geolocation IP information? Everything I managed to find discusses the current data, but I could not find a way to request a service or database, for example, to look for IP information from several years ago.

I found this article entitled "How to Perform Historical IP Geolocation Searches" and mentions maxmind as a potential tool for availability of historical versions, but it does not mention how to access this data.

Looking through maxmind api docs I also cannot find a way to query by date.

How could I find the IP location at a given time? (Extreme accuracy is not required, an example is the search for the country of this IP address in 2012)

Answer 1

There may be a simpler solution, but it looks like you can download some (not all) older versions of the MaxMind database through the Wayback Machine . For example, this shows the snapshots that they have for a binary database. For CSV files, you need to find snapshots for specific file names and manually change the file names to the desired date on the 1st day. For example, here is one .

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• https://serverfault.com/questions/286025/historical-ip-geo-location
• https://serverfault.com/questions/59167/how-often-do-ip-blocks-get-reassigned-to-different-regions