April 2022 deadline: Conversion of 6-digit IINs to 8-digit IINs

[Hen-Rex]

Following an updated ISO standard that requires replacing 6-digit IINs/BINs with 8-digit IINs/BINs, Visa announced some years ago that they will convert all old 6-digit ranges to 8-digit ranges from April 2022.
All new Visa-cards from that time onwards will be issued with an 8-digit BIN only per default.
Mastercard announced more or less the same: From April 2022 they will start issuing 8-digit BINs on request

Other card networks (AmEx, etc.) have made similar plans. As this is an ISO-specification, we can safely assume that all card networks will make this change soon, probably in April 2022.

The time, therefore, has come that binlist.net should no longer allow any 6-digit BINs in the database. Binlist must not show any result until the user enters at least the first 8 digits — because 6-digit BIN lookups will be erroneous at best and completely wrong at worst after April 2022. And we can conclude that many neobanks default to these 8-digit ranges already, such as Revolut, Curve, etc. This goes for both Visa and Mastercard.

Visa source:
https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/global/partner-with-us/documents/visa.com-numerics-faq.pdf
Mastercard source:
https://www.mastercard.com/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/globalrisk/pdf/8-Digit%20BIN%20Expansion%20and%20PCI%20Standards%20-%20FINAL%20(10-20-2021).pdf

[harryqt]

Oooo... I wasn't aware of this. FYI this repo owner is ded. 😐

[tjconcept]

This repo hasn't been used by binlist.net for years, hence it is not maintained.

[EvgeniyaKamenska]

Hi @tjconcept
Does the data on which https://binlist.net/ is based are updated and actualized? How frequently it does? If such repository is not actual maybe there is some link to actual open repository or the documentation which says when data is updated. Because I also have an issue that country incorrectly identified by BIN and want to know is https://binlist.net/ still alive and could I rely on the returned data.

Thanks,
Yevheniia