How to redirect visitors to Country Specific Domains based on IP Address

[Rox]

I am working on a personal project which requires me to redirect domains based on visitors location (IP address). Example - Canadian visitor must be directed to domain.ca or UK visitor must be sent to domain.co.uk

I looked up google and all i managed to find is redirecting based on IP Ranges, this is a very tedious task and will take a lot of my time away. Also, i will have to keep updating the IP ranges as and when new IP ranges are added by a country.

Is there any better method to achieve what i want? Any software or script that can do this?

Your help will be appreciated. For a fact - I am only looking to do .com and .in as of now.

Thanks!

Rox Reviewed by Rox on 1st Sep 2012. How to redirect visitors to Country Specific Domains based on IP Address I am working on a personal project which requires me to redirect domains based on visitors location (IP address). Example - Canadian visitor must be directed to domain.ca or UK visitor must be sent to domain.co.uk I looked up google and all i managed to find is redirecting based on IP Ranges, this is a very tedious task and will take a lot of my time away. Also, i will have to keep updating the IP ranges as and when new IP ranges are added by a country. Is there any better method to Rating: 5

[torrfriend]

i think you can get this easily from ip2location database for $49/year

[Lock Down]

There are some free sites that do this like http://www.selfseo.com/ip_to_country.php

Which can be called with curl problem is you never know when they will vanish.

[Rox]

Can you shed more knowledge on curl call thing? I do not know how to do it.

[Gavo]

This site is using a hacked database of W junction

[vgnheart]

Its better if you use Maxmind Geo-lite db + Nginx compiled with geoip module.