Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Moderate New Registrations Based On IP Geographical Origin

This mod will put any new registration into moderation so you can either approve or deny based on the physical location of the IP address. If the IP is located in a country that you white list, the registration will go through as normal.

This may be different for everyone else, but on my forums, I have yet to have a Russian IP sign up for anything other than posting SPAM. This plugin has moderated them all!

I hope to have time to eventually expand this to do other things. This works with 4.0.x.

You MUST download the zone files from this site:

http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/

The free license does not allow me to include them with the product, plus it is better to download the latest files anyway.

No real screenshots to show here, sorry.

Changelog:

12/20/2008

• Coded the routine in, instead of using external whois program.
• Now compatible with Windows
• (39 download of 1.0)

2/11/2009

• 77 downloads at this point
• Rewrote application to use zone files rather than relying on Arin

To upgrade, READ THE README, and re-install product (select overwrite).

Don't forget to:

CLICK INSTALL!

[Brother]

I'm not sure how should it works

i done everything but i can't see any change in the users moderation page!!

[The_Hawk]

ignore me, wrong thread :P

[wheretobet]

is there gonna be a release for version 4?

[TheDevil666Damo]

This used to be a fantastic little plugin stopping ALL spam by restricting certain country IP's, however, just installed it since our upgrade to 4.1.10 and it no longer seems to be working properly, or at least causing registration problems...

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/plugins/whois.php on line 33

...when's its disabled registrations work again, anyone got any ideas?

[DAMINK]

Just curious, is this working in 4.2?
Should this be added or duplicated to go in the 4.0 mods if it is??

[thenashy]

Just to confirm, I have this running on 4.2 perfectly fine.

[kevinh]

Great idea. I've been blocking CIDR ranges but it's a never ending battle. The whitelist will work much better for us as we run a couple of professional forums for the Australian market. We're not really interested in posts from other jurisdictions because they are not relevant.

We do however get heaps of comment spammers from India, Pakistan, China, Vietnam and one or two other countries. We don't seem to be on the RU spammer's radar yet

We currently moderate first posts, but what I suspect are paid SEO spammers are getting very clever. They make detailed posts about complex topics which read like genuine posts. Fortunately they almost always trip up some way or other which raises our suspicions and we check the IP.

Frankly I would rather just stop them from registering in the first place.

The irony here is that often the products that these spammers are promoting are often US or UK products. My guess is that these companies are buying SEO services and are unaware that they are paying for comment spam.

Perhaps we need a public "name & shame" list for companies who's products or services are being promoted in our forums by comment spammers?

Installing now ....

[imported_dfmafia]

its flagging US IP's as China and thus blocking them from registering.

[toon79]

How do edit the rejection email that goes out?

[Bilderback]

Love the concept but I had to uninstall it due to improper flagging and it will not allow users to accept the forum rules during registration using the default mobile style.
I have many registrations using mobile devices and I cannot afford to shut them out.
Every time a user attempts to register on a mobile device, they receive the error:
You have chosen not to accept the forum rules......