The nature of IP has a pivotal impact on the stability and compliance of business operations, especially in cross-border network communication, cloud server construction, social media operation, e-commerce platform business development and other application scenarios. In fact, we often refer to native IP when accessing international mainstream networks, deploying some international service nodes, network acceleration, or account registration. What is native IP? What are its features and advantages?
Determining whether the IP is Wie native IP is a matter of great concern to every webmaster, server user, and operation and maintenance technician. Native IP address refers to an IP address that is directly applied for by the local network service provider in the country or region and is used locally. Native IP is often viewed by mainstream Internet service platforms as a "natural" source of local access, with a higher level of trust. In contrast, non-native IP (non-local original IP), such as the use of BGP backroute, Cloudflare transfer, and foreign IDC providers to broadcast IP to other countries, although this type of IP can be configured for use in the target area, but in terms of IP ownership, geographical location, trust rating, etc., is often not as real and stable as native IP.
The key to determining whether an IP address is native is to check whether the IP address registration information is consistent with the actual deployment location. The most common method is to query by IP home. The original registration information of an IP can be found by using the databases of the world's top five IP address assignment agencies, such as ARIN (USA), RIPE (Europe), APNIC (Asia Pacific), LACNIC (Latin America), and AFRINIC (Africa). If the information indicates that the IP address belongs to a local carrier (such as AT&T, Verizon, SingTel, NTT, etc.) in a certain region, and the IP address segment is managed and allocated locally, you can basically confirm that the IP address is a native IP address.
In addition to determining the place of registration, it is also necessary to observe the performance of IP in the geographical location database. IP geographic location databases (such as IP2Location, MaxMind, IPIP.net) can more accurately mark the geographical attribution of IP through the statistics of global Internet operation data. If the IP is consistently marked as local in the target country by multiple mainstream libraries and is consistent with the actual test performance, such as visiting the home page of the local language in the browser and calling the API to return the time zone and currency of the target country, it indicates that the IP has strong local attributes and is more likely to be judged as native.
In addition, delay testing and network path tracking tools can be used to verify the actual location of the IP. Use tools such as ping, traceroute, mtr, etc., to test the communication delay between the target IP and the network node in the target country. If the delay is very low (for example, the delay of testing the US IP in the US is less than 20ms), and there is no trans-continental route in the path, it indicates that the IP is likely to be deployed locally. If the virtual overseas IP is broadcast through BGP, there is usually a path detour, the delay is high, and the routing path may show that it is actually still in another country.
For further judgment, you can also refer to the IP blacklist record and trust score. Many cloud risk control systems and advertising platforms (such as Google Ads, Facebook, Amazon) maintain a risk database based on IP reputation, including whether the IP is a proxy, whether there is a jump, transit, and whether it is a data center IP. Native IP usually has a better reputation score and is not easily identified as a suspect source. The IP provided by some VPS service providers, even if it seems to come from the United States, Japan, Singapore, but because it belongs to the IDC or data center IP segment, it is often identified by the platform as an agent or robot source, account registration is easy to fail, and mail delivery may enter the trash.
In the actual business, the need to choose native IP is very broad. For cross-border social networking and e-commerce operators, a native IP can effectively simulate real user behavior, so as to avoid being judged abnormal due to "non-local login" and improve the account survival rate. For those who do search engine optimization (SEO) or advertising, the use of native IP can prevent accounts from being blocked or clicks invalid due to IP anomalies. For scientific Internet access, data collection, API access and other scenarios, native IP can not only improve the connection success rate, but also greatly improve the request speed and content accuracy.
In summary, judging whether IP is native can not rely on a single tool or a single judgment criterion, but should be combined with WHOIS query, geographical positioning, route tracking, platform verification, delayed testing, content response, reputation score and other means to judge together.
