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      <title>Etsy, Mercado Libre and Rakuten: IP expectations for new sellers</title>
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      <description>Three marketplaces where network consistency matters in different ways. What to check before you register.</description>
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      <title>The order of fixes: IP, device, payment, phone — what to change first</title>
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      <description>When something is off, changing everything at once destroys the evidence. This is the order that keeps the diagnosis intact.</description>
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      <title>What a platform sees when you log in through a VPN</title>
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      <description>A VPN hides your city, not your category. Here is what the platform can infer from a VPN exit versus a residential line.</description>
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      <title>Browser profile isolation for multiple stores: what actually leaks</title>
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      <description>One profile per store is the usual advice. Here is what leaks between profiles even when you follow it.</description>
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      <title>Residential proxy pricing in 2026: what is fair and what is hidden</title>
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      <description>Per-GB, per-IP, per-port — the pricing models are not comparable. Here is how to convert them into a cost per usable address.</description>
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      <title>How an IP gets burned, and whether it can recover</title>
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      <description>Flagging is rarely permanent. What actually changes an address reputation, how long it takes, and when replacing it is the only option.</description>
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      <title>How to read a pool report (and what to send to a supplier)</title>
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      <description>Our report page is meant to be forwarded. Here is what each number means and which parts actually settle an argument.</description>
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      <title>Timezone and language mismatches: the cheapest signal platforms can read</title>
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      <description>Before any fingerprinting, a platform can compare your IP timezone with your browser timezone and language. Here is how to align them.</description>
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      <title>DNS leaks: what they reveal, how to test, and why a VPN alone is not enough</title>
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      <description>A VPN can hide your IP while your DNS queries still go to a local resolver. Here is what that reveals and how to check it.</description>
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      <title>What actually triggers an account review (a catalogue, not a theory)</title>
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      <description>Reviews are usually caused by a small cluster of inconsistencies. Here is the catalogue sellers report most often, ordered by how much you can control.</description>
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      <title>Static vs rotating proxy pools: which one your store actually needs</title>
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      <description>Rotation is a feature for scraping and a bug for store accounts. A short decision guide with the trade-offs.</description>
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      <title>Residential vs mobile proxies: the trade-off nobody explains honestly</title>
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      <description>Mobile proxies cost more and rotate more. Here is when they help a store — and when they are just an expensive version of the same risk.</description>
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      <title>Seven warm-up mistakes that quietly burn a new account</title>
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      <description>Most warm-up failures are not dramatic — they are small inconsistencies repeated for a week. Here are the seven we see most.</description>
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      <title>Temu, eBay and Walmart: what they check before a new seller is approved</title>
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      <description>A practical comparison of what each marketplace looks at, and which parts an IP check can cover.</description>
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      <title>Can two stores share one IP? What actually gets linked</title>
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      <description>The IP is one of several linking signals — and usually not the strongest. Here is what links accounts and what does not.</description>
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      <title>Your IP got flagged: what to do (and what not to do) in the first 48 hours</title>
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      <description>Panic changes make it worse. A short, ordered checklist for handling a flagged IP or an account review.</description>
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      <title>Eight questions to ask before buying a residential proxy pool</title>
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      <description>Most “residential” pools are resold hosting ranges. These eight questions — and a 20-address test — separate the two.</description>
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      <title>Choosing the IP for a new Shopee store</title>
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      <description>Shopee checks local phone, payment country and network together. Here is how to line them up before you register.</description>
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      <title>The free data feeds behind a serious IP check (and how to combine them)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Cloud provider ranges, Spamhaus DROP, PeeringDB and the Tor exit list: what each one gives you, where it fails, and how to combine them without buying a commercial database.</description>
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      <title>TCP fingerprinting and port scans: what they can and cannot tell you about a proxy</title>
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      <description>TCP/IP stack fingerprints, open proxy ports and their limits — and why an HTTP-side check cannot replace them.</description>
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      <title>Building a batch verification client against the IPASK API</title>
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      <description>A practical walkthrough: authentication, batching, concurrency, retries and quota accounting with real code.</description>
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      <title>How GeoIP databases actually work (and why city-level is fuzzy)</title>
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      <description>Where geolocation data comes from, what accuracy_radius really means, why free and commercial databases disagree, and how often they update.</description>
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      <title>IPv6 attribution: /64s, temporary addresses and why the answer is fuzzier</title>
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      <description>IPv6 changes what &quot;an IP&quot; means: users control most of the address, clients rotate it, and a /64 is a single household. Here is what that does to attribution.</description>
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      <title>Inside the verdict engine: rules, confidence and what we deliberately do not do</title>
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      <description>A technical walkthrough of how an IP becomes a verdict: which signals are used, how confidence is assigned, and the limits we accept.</description>
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      <title>How the Tor exit list is published — and how to match it correctly</title>
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      <description>The list is public and updated constantly. Here is where it comes from, how often it changes, and the mistakes to avoid when matching.</description>
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      <title>Anycast and CDN exits: why some IPs look like they are everywhere</title>
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      <description>One IP, many locations. How anycast works, what it does to geolocation, and why a CDN edge is a poor identity for a store.</description>
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      <title>RDAP in practice: querying prefix registration without a WHOIS client</title>
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      <description>RDAP is the structured replacement for WHOIS. Here is how to query prefix ownership and which fields actually help an IP check.</description>
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      <title>Reverse DNS (PTR) patterns: what they reveal and what they do not</title>
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      <description>PTR records are set by the network owner. Here is how to read them, the patterns that suggest a home line, and the cases where they lie.</description>
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      <title>Reading BGP AS paths to understand where an IP really comes from</title>
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      <description>AS numbers, AS paths and upstreams — how to read routing data with public tools, and why the announcing ASN decides the verdict.</description>
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      <title>TikTok Shop: why your IP region and your shop region must agree</title>
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      <description>Region mismatches are one of the most common reasons a TikTok Shop gets limited. Here is how to check alignment before you apply.</description>
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