What is usage type

IP2Location groups IP addresses into 12 usage types based on the function of the organization/business unit. These usage type classifications are useful especially if you would like to filter certain ranges of IP addresses for your needs. For example, you could check the EDU IP address ranges if you want to find out whether the IP address originates from a university, college or school. Below are the usage types supported.

Usage TypeDescription
COMCommercial
ORGOrganization
GOVGovernment
MILMilitary
EDUUniversity/College/School
LIBLibrary
CDNContent Delivery Network
ISPFixed Line ISP
MOBMobile ISP
DCHData Center/Web Hosting/Transit
SESSearch Engine Spider
RSVReserved

You may visit https://www.ip2location.com/demo to evaluate the usage type information of an IP address. If you are interested to know more about the packages that contains this information, please visit the below links.

DB23: IP-Country-Region-City-Latitude-Longitude-ISP-Domain-Mobile-UsageType

DB24: IP-Country-Region-City-Latitude-Longitude-ZIPCode-TimeZone-ISP-Domain-NetSpeed-AreaCode-Weather-Mobile-Elevation-UsageType Database

DB25: IP-Country-Region-City-Latitude-Longitude-ZIPCode-TimeZone-ISP-Domain-NetSpeed-AreaCode-Weather-Mobile-Elevation-UsageType-AddressType-Category


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