This is really because TCP/IP wasn't designed for geo-location, and its companies such as MaxMind whom have set themselves up as Geo-IP organisations, to help people like the BBC protect their regional content.
IP space is tradable, and the network works, its the Digital Rights Management that starts to go wrong as we are trying to create national borders on a medium that never had any.
Yeah, this has caused us some grief. Some of our customers want to know that their data is being held within Northern Europe and we've had problems proving this. It's a particular problem with Microsoft Azure services because their IP addresses seem to be 'geo-dynamic'.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mast/archive/2014/05/10/micr...
They maintain a list somewhere (can't find it off the top of my head) but unfortunately at least one of our customers felt it didn't meet their data retention policy requirements.
Edit: Ah found the list. With obligatory Win10 advert at the top
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.asp...
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Andrue Cope
Brackley, UK
Edited by Andrue (Sun 10-Jan-16 21:56:58)