'''MaxMind''' is a [[Massachusetts]]-based digital mapping company that provides [[Internet geolocation|location data for IP addresses]].<ref name="Hill">{{cite news|last1=Hill|first1=Kashmir|title=How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell|url=http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/|accessdate=11 April 2016|work=[[Fusion TV|Fusion]]|date=10 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="Weinberger">{{cite news|last1=Weinberger|first1=Matt|title=This company made a decision in 2002 that's making life miserable for an 82-year-old woman and her Kansas farm|url=http://www.businessinsider.in/This-company-made-a-decision-in-2002-thats-making-life-miserable-for-an-82-year-old-woman-and-her-Kansas-farm/articleshow/51771353.cms|accessdate=11 April 2016|work=[[Business Insider]] India|date=10 April 2016}}</ref> MaxMind was founded in 2002 by Thomas "TJ" Mather and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.maxmind.com/en/company|title={{!}} MaxMind|website=www.maxmind.com|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref>
In an unusual technical glitch, a farmstead about 4 miles northeast of [[Potwin, Kansas]] became the default site of 600 million [[IP address]]es (due to their lack of fine granularity) when the digital mapping company changed the putative [[geographic center of the contiguous United States]] from 39.8333333,-98.585522 to 38.0000,-97.0000<ref name="Potwin, Kansas">{{cite web | url=https://splinternews.com/how-an-internet-mapping-glitch-turned-a-random-kansas-f-1793856052 | title=How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell | publisher=[[Splinter News]] | date=10 April 2016 | accessdate=2016-04-10 | author=Hill, Kashmir}}</ref><ref>[http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article94447622.html Kansas couple sues over internet glitch targeting their home; The Wichita Eagle; August 8, 2016.]</ref> leading to law enforcement agents and others visiting the farmstead at all hours of the day and night. The owners of the property at those coordinates filed a lawsuit against MaxMind, which was settled via [[alternative dispute resolution]] in September 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/kansas-couple-sues-ip-mapping-firm-for-turning-their-life-into-a-digital-hell/ |title=Kansas couple sues IP mapping firm for turning their life into a "digital hell": Company fixed the error, but it may be years before the issue is resolved. |date=2016-08-10 |access-date=2016-08-10 |website= Ars Technica |publisher= |last=Farivar |first=Cyrus}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Pacer |plaintiff= Arnold et al |defendant= MaxMind, Inc.|title= ADR Report|date=5 August 2015 |case-division= Wichita |case-year=16 |case-type=cv |case-sequence=01309 |case-state=ks |case-district=d |doc-number=78 |att-number= |pacer-number=113009 |access-date=4 May 2018 |use-pacer=yes |use-recap= |case-title= |recap-number= |ref= }}</ref>
