MaxMind published an analysis showing that high-confidence proxy detections are 3.5x more likely to turn up in chargebacks than in standard traffic.

Founded in 2002, MaxMind is an industry leader in IP intelligence, proxy detection, and online fraud prevention tools. We help businesses enhance their user experience, manage risk, and reduce fraud, easily and efficiently. Known as the creator of GeoIP® and the first company to offer both IP address data and fraud detection services, we are on a mission to make the Internet a smarter and safer place, with data-driven solutions. Today, over 100,000 businesses worldwide rely on MaxMind data for online fraud prevention, Internet security, content customization, advertising, analytics, digital rights management, compliance, and user experience optimization. We design our solutions to be scalable, flexible, and affordable, ensuring they are accessible to businesses of all sizes. Since the inception of MaxMind in 2002, we have offered a free version of our GeoIP data, and we continue to donate over 60% of profits to charities.