diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 561ce7b..db52e7a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 * Added new network utilities to fetch IP and country information from a host.
 
-  The country information is fetched using the free `ip-api.com` service. NOTE! This service is rate limited to 150 requests per minute and requires a paid plan for commercial usage. Please make sure to respect the terms.
+  The country information is fetched using the free `ipdata.co` service. NOTE! This service is rate limited to 1500 requests per day.
   
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/federation/tests/utils/test_network.py b/federation/tests/utils/test_network.py
index d1520c9..7c4543b 100644
--- a/federation/tests/utils/test_network.py
+++ b/federation/tests/utils/test_network.py
@@ -8,17 +8,14 @@ from federation.utils.network import (
     fetch_document, USER_AGENT, send_document, fetch_country_by_ip, fetch_host_ip_and_country)
 
 
-@patch('federation.utils.network.requests.get', autospec=True, return_value=Mock(
-    status_code=200, json=Mock(return_value={'countryCode': 'FI'}),
-))
+@patch('federation.utils.network.ipdata', autospec=True)
 class TestFetchCountryByIp:
-    def test_calls_ip_api_endpoint(self, mock_get):
-        fetch_country_by_ip('127.0.0.1')
-        mock_get.assert_called_once_with('http://ip-api.com/json/127.0.0.1"')
-
-    def test_returns_country_code(self, mock_get):
-        result = fetch_country_by_ip('127.0.0.1')
-        assert result == 'FI'
+    def test_calls_ip_api_endpoint(self, mock_ipdata):
+        mock_lookup = Mock(lookup=Mock(return_value={'status': 200, 'response': {'country_code': 'DE'}}))
+        mock_ipdata.ipdata.return_value = mock_lookup
+        country = fetch_country_by_ip('127.0.0.1')
+        mock_lookup.lookup.assert_called_once_with('127.0.0.1')
+        assert country == 'DE'
 
 
 class TestFetchDocument:
diff --git a/federation/utils/network.py b/federation/utils/network.py
index fafdea5..367a2c2 100644
--- a/federation/utils/network.py
+++ b/federation/utils/network.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import logging
 import socket
 
 import requests
+from ipdata import ipdata
 from requests.exceptions import RequestException, HTTPError, SSLError
 from requests.exceptions import ConnectionError
 from requests.structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
@@ -19,19 +20,18 @@ def fetch_country_by_ip(ip):
 
     Returns empty string if the request fails in non-200 code.
 
-    Uses the ip-api.com service which has the following rules:
+    Uses the ipdata.co service which has the following rules:
 
-    * Max 150 requests per minute
-    * Non-commercial use only without a paid plan!
+    * Max 1500 requests per day
 
-    See: http://ip-api.com/docs/api:json
+    See: https://ipdata.co/docs.html#python-library
     """
-    result = requests.get("http://ip-api.com/json/%s" % ip)
-    if result.status_code != 200:
+    iplookup = ipdata.ipdata()
+    data = iplookup.lookup(ip)
+    if data.get('status') != 200:
         return ''
 
-    result = result.json()
-    return result['countryCode']
+    return data.get('response', {}).get('country_code', '')
 
 
 def fetch_document(url=None, host=None, path="/", timeout=10, raise_ssl_errors=True):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4d0a051..fe15c91 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ setup(
         "cssselect>=0.9.2",
         "dirty-validators>=0.3.0",
         "lxml>=3.4.0",
+        "ipdata>=2.6",
         "jsonschema>=2.0.0",
         "pycrypto>=2.6.0",
         "python-dateutil>=2.4.0",
@@ -52,5 +53,5 @@ setup(
         'Topic :: Internet',
         'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
     ],
-    keywords='federation diaspora federate social',
+    keywords='federation diaspora activitypub federate social',
 )