The IP Host heatmap

I was looking for a heatmap of the amount of IP addresses per country. I had an old one that I dug up somewhere and stuck in my ghost image library. I pull this server up and down quite a bit, but for the moment it can live in Frankfurt, Germany - yes, I know where my Ghost Pro server is located.

So, you guessed it - I ran off to my $30 a month AI - it's not a singular AI but a mix of about 3, depending on the question I can switch between them and get a more thorough answer.

So, looking at the heatmap you will find something interesting about Greenland.

It stands out like nobody's business, so I asked - WTH dude.

Now, about your Greenland question 🧊:

• Greenland shows up as “red” not because there are millions of people there running servers, but because of how IP address allocations work.
• IP blocks are allocated to organizations (ISPs, corporations, universities, governments) and registered under a country code. That doesn’t mean the machines are physically in that country.
• Greenland’s “red” effect is likely an artifact of registry allocations (ARIN/RIPE) or a quirk in how the dataset maps IP ranges to country codes. In reality, Greenland has very few live endpoints.
• So, what you’re seeing is a registry illusion — the iceberg (I was being a bit blunt - it's just well, me) isn’t secretly running half the internet.

So now you know, now I know. It's the Bahama's of the IT industry.

Neat. I'm keeping and using it anyway.

This is the problem by the way with geo-blocking. Depending on how your firewall determines the location of a particular host has stuff all to do with who owns the damn IP block, or for that matter the TLD to which it belongs.

#enoughsaid