Over the past few weeks we've been adding many new VPN services to our detection system and we're now at 250 individual service providers that we detect. The main way we've been going about it is detecting Data Centers and Service Providers that offer commercial hosting and thus enabling us to detect all the middle-men VPN providers that rent their servers.
We've also received a lot of leads from our users. It has been made clear to us that VPN detection is very important to our customers. We're incredibly thankful to those of you who have been sending us IP Addresses we missed and service providers we don't yet detect.
While adding many of these VPN services to our database we did find some bugs with our API VPN database lookups. Specifically when a VPN Provider had a great many addresses their IP's weren't being detected consistently due to an exhausted key buffer. This was caused by a very simple code error on our part which we have since resolved. From our data we believe 5% of all our VPN entries were affected by this bug.
Being a well rounded service which means the accurate detection of VPN services and not just Proxy Servers is of paramount importance to us and we are laser focused on adding as many VPN services as possible to our database.
Thank you for reading this post and please feel free to contact us via Skype, Web chat or Email to provide us with the IP Addresses or the names of VPN services we're not currently detecting, all of this data is incredibly valuable to us.