My IP and IP Lookup
The IP address you appear with on the internet, its type — IPv4 or IPv6 — and, where available, the approximate location and time zone associated with it.
This address is not your computer’s address inside your home. What you see is the public address of your router or provider, which is what every website sees when you visit it.
Your machine’s internal address usually starts with 192.168 or 10, and is not visible from outside your network.
IPv4 uses four dot-separated numbers and holds about 4.3 billion addresses — exhausted years ago. That is why providers share a single address among several customers.
IPv6 uses eight colon-separated hexadecimal groups and has an enormous address space, large enough to make sharing unnecessary.
If an IPv6 address appears here, your connection already runs on that protocol. Many connections use both at once, and which one a site sees depends on how the request was made.
IP geolocation does not come from GPS. It is inferred from databases mapping address ranges to regions, fed by the providers themselves.
Typical accuracy reaches city level, and often points to the city where the provider’s equipment sits rather than where you are. On mobile connections the error can be hundreds of kilometres.
With a VPN or proxy, what appears is the location of the intermediate server. That is exactly the effect those tools are meant to produce.
It identifies your provider and rough region, and is logged by virtually every site you visit — that is how the web works.
What it does not directly reveal is your identity, your name or your home address. That association exists only in the provider’s records and requires a court order to access.
The lookup here uses your own request headers. No data is stored.
- Estimated country, region and city, with the country code.
- Approximate latitude and longitude.
- The time zone associated with the address range.
- The access provider and the organisation responsible for the block.
There is no location information inside an IP address. What exists are databases mapping address ranges to regions, built from the registries that allocate blocks and from data supplied by providers themselves.
Accuracy therefore varies considerably. On a fixed home connection, city-level accuracy is reasonable. On mobile, the address usually belongs to a regional block and can point hundreds of kilometres away.
Datacentre addresses point to the server’s location, not to whoever is using it — which is exactly the effect of VPNs, proxies and cloud hosting.
- Investigating where a suspicious access recorded in a log came from.
- Identifying the provider responsible for a block before reporting abuse.
- Checking whether a VPN service is genuinely masking the origin.
- Understanding why a site served content for another country or language.
The lookup identifies an address range, not a person. There is no name, home address or identity attached.
Treating IP geolocation as proof of location is a common and fragile mistake: any VPN, proxy or corporate network changes the result effortlessly.
For region-based blocking or restriction, expect a meaningful share of users to be classified incorrectly.
Frequently asked questions
It is the public address of your connection as seen from outside. Your machine’s internal address, usually starting with 192.168, is not visible over the internet.
Because the location is inferred from databases mapping address ranges, not from GPS. It often points at where the provider’s equipment sits. On mobile the error is larger.
On most home connections, yes: the provider assigns a dynamic address that can change when you restart the router or periodically. A fixed IP is usually a separately purchased service.
Only to a rough region. The link between address and subscriber exists only in provider records and requires a court order.
One site may have read your IPv6 and another your IPv4, since many connections have both. A VPN or proxy also changes what is seen.
No. It is estimated from databases mapping address ranges. On fixed connections it usually gets the city right; on mobile the error can be hundreds of kilometres.
The lookup shows the provider and the organisation responsible for the block, not the person. The link to a subscriber exists only in the provider’s records.
Because the address belongs to a hosting or VPN provider. What you see is the server’s location, not that of whoever is behind it.
Yes, although geolocation database coverage for IPv6 is still less complete than for IPv4.
Public addresses, yes. Private ones, such as those starting with 192.168 or 10, do not exist outside the local network and return no location.