VPN & Proxy Detection — IrelandDetect VPN, Proxy & Bot Traffic from Ireland
Sentinel scores every visitor's network in real time — flagging VPN exit nodes, residential proxies, datacenter ASNs, and headless browsers originating from Ireland. Free API. Under 40ms. No CAPTCHAs.
Why Ireland traffic needs special scrutiny
Datacenter ASN concentration
Ireland is AWS Dublin and Microsoft Azure Dublin are the largest datacenter VPN exit sources in Western Europe.
Residential proxy resale
Consumer ISP ranges in Ireland are routinely sold through residential proxy networks like ShadowNode and Bright Data. These IPs look real but rotate every few minutes — a clear bot signature once you know what to look for.
VPN exit-node clustering
The same handful of hosting providers dominate VPN exit nodes in Ireland. Sentinel maintains live mappings of these ranges so a new IP from a known VPN ASN is flagged within seconds of going live.
Antidetect browser usage
Multi-accounting fraud against Irish-targeted SaaS, fintech, and e-commerce increasingly uses Kameleo, GoLogin, or AdsPower to spoof device fingerprints. Sentinel scores these at the device layer, not the IP layer.
What Sentinel detects for Ireland traffic
- Every major VPN provider's Irish exit nodes (NordVPN, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, Mullvad, Surfshark, and 40+ more)
- Residential proxy networks reselling consumer Irish IPs (ShadowNode, Bright Data, Smartproxy, Oxylabs)
- Datacenter ASNs commonly used for automation (AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode)
- Tor exit nodes and known anonymous relays advertising Irish geolocations
- Headless browsers (Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium) and antidetect tooling driving sessions from Ireland
- Country-spoofing — when a session claims to be in Ireland but the network telemetry says otherwise
One API call. Bearer token. Done.
const r = await fetch('https://sntlhq.com/v1/evaluate', {
method: 'POST',
headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer sk_live_...' },
body: JSON.stringify({ token: sentinelToken })
});
const { decision, country, network } = await r.json();
if (country === 'IE' && network.vpn) blockOrChallenge();
Stop Irish VPN, proxy & bot fraud today
Free tier. 1,000 API requests per hour. No credit card. Detects VPN, residential proxy, datacenter, and bot traffic from Ireland and 195 other countries.