Location technology platform
Foursquare
Foursquare is a location technology company known for place data, check-ins, geospatial tools, and APIs that help apps and businesses understand real-world locations.
What Foursquare is
Foursquare is a location technology platform that builds data, APIs, and analytics around real-world places and movement. It is known both for its earlier consumer products, such as check-ins and local discovery, and for business tools that help companies work with points of interest, visits, audiences, attribution, and geospatial intelligence.
From check-ins to location intelligence
Foursquare first became familiar to many users as a service for checking in at restaurants, shops, airports, parks, and other venues. Over time, the company put more emphasis on its underlying place database and location technology, turning consumer activity and place verification into infrastructure for developers, advertisers, analysts, and businesses.
How the data is used
Foursquare products can help apps search for nearby places, tag a device location to a specific venue, analyze movement patterns, build audiences, measure campaign effects, or maintain business listings. The company describes its platform as a way to understand people, places, and interactions between them in the physical world.
Places API and POI data
The Places API gives developers access to point-of-interest data and location context. Foursquare says its APIs can convert raw GPS data into meaningful place information, support search and category filters, and return metadata such as photos, reviews, ratings, popularity, features, and hours where available.
Privacy and consent
Location data is sensitive because it can reveal habits, routines, and visits to private or meaningful places. Foursquare says its technology uses opt-in consent, privacy-forward methods, and consumer consent. Readers should still treat any location-data business as a privacy-sensitive system that depends on clear permissions and responsible data handling.
Why it matters
Many digital services need to understand the physical world: maps, delivery apps, travel tools, retail analytics, advertising, local search, urban planning, and risk analysis all depend on accurate place data. Foursquare is part of the infrastructure layer that helps software connect coordinates to actual venues and real-world behavior.
Limits and cautions
Place data can be incomplete, outdated, or disputed, especially when businesses move, close, change names, or have complex indoor layouts. Location signals can also be noisy. A responsible use of Foursquare data should account for uncertainty, local privacy laws, consent, and the possibility that a location model may infer the wrong place.
WHOIS domain data
Data pulled: May 19, 2026View current WHOIS record
- Domain
- foursquare.com
- IP address
- 151.101.194.132
- Registrar
- Gandi SAS
- WHOIS server
- whois.gandi.net
- Referral URL
- http://www.gandi.net
- Created
- March 26, 2002
- Updated
- February 22, 2026
- Expires
- March 26, 2027
- Nameservers
- ns-1013.awsdns-62.net (205.251.195.245); ns-1758.awsdns-27.co.uk (205.251.198.222); ns-91.awsdns-11.com (205.251.192.91); ns-1360.awsdns-42.org (205.251.197.80)
- Domain status
- clientTransferProhibited
- Contact privacy
- Registrant name, address details, phone, fax, admin contact, and technical contact are redacted for privacy; registrant organization is listed as Foursquare Labs, Inc. in New York, US, with contact routed through Gandi.