EU sanctions restrict providing software and IT services to Russia and Belarus, and ban dealing with listed parties everywhere. If you ship software, licenses or downloads, the first signal is geographic: is the address you are serving in a sanctioned jurisdiction? Type an IP address or a domain name. The check runs on our server against a local geolocation database; the name you type is not stored.
Occupied Ukrainian territory. Crimea, Sevastopol and the non-government-controlled areas of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are under full EU sanctions (Regulation 692/2014), but a country-level geolocation reports them as Ukraine. Treat a Ukrainian address near those regions with care.
VPNs and proxies. An address shows where the connection ends, not who sits behind it. A buyer on a Dutch VPN from elsewhere reads green; a listed person reads green anywhere. Geography is one signal among several.
Identity. This check answers a geography question. The question that actually binds you is about parties: screen your counterparty's name, free, on /sanctions/, and buy a dated record when you need proof for your file.
Geolocation: DB-IP Country Lite (dbip.com), CC BY 4.0, refreshed monthly by our own pipeline; the database date is stated in every answer. Domain names are resolved to addresses on our server, then geolocated. Nothing you type is stored; the check is rate-limited per address, like the sanctions screen.
Reference material, not legal advice; the sanctioned-jurisdiction verdicts follow the EU measures in force and name the regulation for each.
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