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I Mapped Nearly a Million Proxy IPs

These are the IPs I managed to map, not the full size of any provider’s network.

After combining the lists for 711, IP Royal and Proxy Seller, I had 964,797 unique IP addresses. One is IPv6; the rest are IPv4.

The IP lists are on GitHub.

Country distribution of the mapped IPs

The US accounts for 510,522 addresses, Brazil 267,707, the UK 113,239 and Canada 71,980. The remaining 1,349 are spread across other countries.

Three providers

Unique IP counts by provider

I counted 625,634 IPs for 711, 98,858 for IP Royal and 273,246 for Proxy Seller. The provider totals overlap, so they add up to more than the overall count.

Where they cross

Exact IP overlap between providers

711 and IP Royal share 27,434 exact IPs. IP Royal shares 5,505 with Proxy Seller, while 711 shares 1,966 with Proxy Seller. 1,964 addresses appear in all three lists.

The map

Every unique IP is on the map. I grouped them into 9,390 location cells to keep it usable. Toggle a provider, zoom in and hover for counts. Split markers show IPs listed by two providers; three colour markers show those listed by all three.

Open the map full screen.

Brazil stood out

Turn on Proxy Seller and Brazil lights up orange. 267,696 of its 273,246 IPs, just under 98%, geolocate there.

That surprised me because, when mapping the data, I specified the USA, Canada and UK only. More than 99.98% of the IPs returned for each of those countries geolocate to Brazil in DB-IP City Lite. I checked the IPtoASN data too: it marks 264,073 Proxy Seller addresses with a BR country code.

The networks behind the addresses

I also looked at ASNs, the networks announcing these IP ranges.

711

Top ASNs for 711

711 spans 3,491 ASNs. Comcast’s AS7922 leads with 52,319 IPs, followed by UUNET and T-Mobile at roughly 30,800 each.

IP Royal

Top ASNs for IP Royal

IP Royal spans 1,319 ASNs. AT&T’s AS7018 leads with 7,181 IPs, followed by Comcast and RCN.

Proxy Seller

Top ASNs for Proxy Seller

Proxy Seller spans 5,847 ASNs. Claro NXT’s AS28573 leads with 31,492 IPs. Several of its other top networks are also Brazilian.