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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet geolocation, risk management |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Founder | Thomas Mather |
| Headquarters | , |
| Website | www |
MaxMind, Inc. is a Massachusetts-based data company that provides location data for IP addresses and other data for IP addresses, and fraud detection data used to screen hundreds of millions of online transactions monthly for more than 7,000 businesses. [1]
MaxMind was founded in 2002 by Thomas "TJ" Mather and is based in Malden, Massachusetts, United States. [2] The company sells IP geolocation and other IP address related data under the GeoIP® brand. In 2004, MaxMind began offering the minFraud® service, a transactional risk analysis service.
MaxMind announced a corporate giving program in 2015, in which more than 50% of profits would be donated to charity. [3] In 2022 the company announced that it donates “over 60% of profits to charities.” [4]
In an unusual technical glitch, a farmstead about 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Potwin, Kansas, became the default site of 600 million IP addresses when the digital mapping company changed the putative geographic center of the contiguous United States from 39°50′N98°35′W / 39.833°N 98.583°W to 38°N97°W / 38°N 97°W [5] [6] [7] [8] leading to law enforcement agents and others visiting the farmstead at all hours of the day and night. The owners of the property at those coordinates filed a lawsuit against MaxMind. MaxMind moved the geographic location of the default IP address to the middle of a Kansas lake and settled the case via alternative dispute resolution in September 2017. [5] [9]
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