What Is My IP Address?

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What This Tool Shows You

This page detects your public IP address the moment it loads and retrieves location, ISP and network details via a server-side lookup — so results are accurate and not blocked by browser privacy restrictions. You can also look up any IPv4 address, IPv6 address or hostname using the search bar above. When you enter a hostname, the tool resolves it to an IP via DNS first, then returns the full geolocation and network profile.

Location & Timezone

Approximate city, region and country plus the UTC offset of the IP's assigned timezone.

ISP & Organisation

The Internet Service Provider and the organisation registered to operate this IP block.

ASN & Network

The Autonomous System Number identifying which network this IP belongs to globally.

Connection Type Flags

Whether the IP is detected as mobile, a proxy or VPN, or a hosting and data-centre address.

Understanding IP Addresses

An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique numerical identifier assigned to every device on a network. It serves two functions: identifying your device and providing a network location so data can be routed to and from you correctly. Every request you make online — loading a page, sending email, streaming video — includes your IP address so the server knows where to send the response.

There are two active versions. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses in dotted-decimal notation (e.g. 203.0.113.45), providing roughly 4.3 billion possible addresses. IPv6 uses 128-bit hexadecimal addresses (e.g. 2001:db8::1), providing a practically inexhaustible supply to meet the growing number of internet-connected devices. Many connections today are dual-stack, meaning the device holds both simultaneously.

Your public IP is assigned by your ISP and is what every website sees when you connect. Your private IP is assigned by your router and only exists within your local network — common private ranges are 192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x and 172.16–31.x.x. Your router translates between them using NAT (Network Address Translation), so your private address never appears on the public internet.

What Your IP Address Actually Reveals

Your public IP can indicate your approximate city or region, your ISP name, your Autonomous System number, your connection timezone, and whether your connection is residential, mobile, a data centre or a known VPN or proxy. It does not expose your exact street address, your name, your browsing history or any account credentials — those require legal process directed at your ISP.

Location accuracy varies significantly. Mobile IPs and large ISP address blocks can be off by hundreds of kilometres, since geolocation databases map to the ISP's nearest routing hub rather than your physical position. VPNs and proxies display the location of their exit server rather than your actual location. The map pin should be understood as a city-level estimate registered to the IP block, not a street-level coordinate.

Useful Things to Know

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between a public and a private IP address?

Your public IP address is assigned by your Internet Service Provider and is the address that every website, server and online service sees when you connect. It is globally routable, meaning it can be reached from any network anywhere in the world. This is the address this page detects and displays.

Your private IP address is assigned by your router within your home or office network and only exists inside that local network. Devices on the same Wi-Fi share one public IP outward but each have their own private IP internally. Common private ranges are 192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x and 172.16–31.x.x. Your router translates between them using NAT, so private addresses never appear on the public internet and two separate households can use the same private IP without any conflict.

Does my IP address change, and how often?

Most home broadband connections use a dynamic IP address assigned via DHCP, which means it can change when your router restarts, when your ISP's DHCP lease renews (typically every 24–48 hours depending on the provider), or after a period of inactivity. Some ISPs change dynamic addresses more aggressively; others may keep the same address for weeks or months even on a technically dynamic plan.

Mobile connections change IP address far more frequently — often every time you switch between cell towers, reconnect to mobile data, or toggle airplane mode. Businesses that host websites, email servers or any publicly accessible service typically pay for a static IP address that remains constant indefinitely, making it reliable for DNS records and firewall allow-lists.

What information does my IP address actually reveal about me?

Your public IP address can reveal: your approximate city or metropolitan region (typically accurate to within 25–80 km for fixed broadband), your Internet Service Provider name, your Autonomous System Number, the timezone of your ISP's routing hub, and whether your connection appears to be residential, mobile, a data centre or a proxy or VPN.

Your IP address does not reveal your exact street address, your full name, your browsing history, the contents of your communications, or any account credentials. Obtaining those details from an IP address requires law enforcement to serve legal process on your ISP — it cannot be done with a public lookup tool. Location inaccuracy is also common: large ISPs register address blocks at regional data centres rather than subscriber locations, which is why the map pin may appear in a different city from where you actually are.

What do the Proxy, VPN and Hosting / DC flags mean?

The Proxy / VPN flag indicates that the IP address is associated with a commercial VPN service, an anonymising proxy, a Tor exit node, or a similar traffic-routing service. When this flag is active, the location shown is the location of the VPN's exit server — not your physical location. Streaming platforms, banking services and fraud detection systems use this flag to identify and sometimes restrict anonymised connections.

The Hosting / Data Centre flag indicates the IP belongs to a cloud provider such as AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Hetzner or DigitalOcean, rather than a home or business broadband line. This flag commonly appears when you visit from a server, a CI/CD pipeline, or a corporate network that routes outbound traffic through a cloud egress point. Seeing either flag does not mean anything is wrong — they simply describe the type of network the IP is registered to.

Why does the hostname show as N/A?

The Hostname field is populated by a reverse DNS lookup (also called a PTR record lookup). A PTR record is an optional DNS entry that maps an IP address back to a human-readable hostname. PTR records must be explicitly configured by the organisation or ISP that controls the IP block, and many simply do not bother, particularly for residential and mobile ranges.

Server IPs, cloud instances, corporate mail servers and large hosting providers are much more likely to have PTR records, since they are used for spam filtering verification — many mail servers reject email from IPs without a valid reverse DNS entry. If the hostname shows N/A for your IP, that is the correct and complete result, not a lookup failure. It simply means no PTR record has been configured for your address.

How accurate is IP-based geolocation?

IP geolocation is an estimate, not a GPS coordinate. It works by mapping IP address ranges to geographic locations using ISP registration data from regional internet registries (ARIN, RIPE, APNIC), network routing data, and crowdsourced correction databases. For fixed broadband connections from a major residential ISP, accuracy is typically at city or metropolitan-area level — usually within 25–80 kilometres of the actual location.

Accuracy degrades significantly for mobile networks (which map to carrier routing hubs), satellite internet (which maps to ground station locations), large corporate networks (which route through central egress points) and VPNs (which display exit server location). The coordinate shown on the map should be understood as the centroid of the IP block as registered by the ISP — not your physical street-level position. IP geolocation is not appropriate for navigation, legal proceedings or emergency services.

What is an ASN and why does it appear in the results?

An ASN (Autonomous System Number) is a unique numerical identifier assigned by a regional internet registry to a collection of IP address ranges operated under a single routing policy — typically a large ISP, a cloud provider, a university or a major enterprise. Every public IP address on the internet belongs to exactly one Autonomous System. ASNs are used by BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) routers to exchange routing information between networks globally.

The ASN in your results identifies which organisation owns and operates the network your IP is assigned to. For home broadband this is your ISP. For mobile data this is your carrier. For VPNs this is the VPN provider. For cloud-hosted connections this is the cloud provider. The Full IP Details panel shows both the ASN number (e.g. AS15169 for Google) and the registered organisation name associated with it.

Can I look up any IP address or hostname?

Yes — use the search bar at the top of the page to look up any IPv4 address, IPv6 address or domain hostname. The search field accepts up to 253 characters, which is the maximum length of a valid fully-qualified domain name. When you enter a hostname such as example.com, the tool performs a DNS A-record lookup to resolve it to an IP address first, then fetches the full geolocation and network profile for that resolved IP.

This is useful for investigating the hosting location of a website, verifying where a mail server is physically located, checking network details of a specific server before connecting, or confirming that a domain resolves to the expected IP after a DNS change. Private addresses like 192.168.x.x will not return geolocation data since they are not globally routable and have no public registration.

Is this page storing or logging my IP address?

No. Your IP address is used server-side solely to perform the lookup and display the result — it is not written to any database, not linked to any user account or profile, and not shared with third parties for tracking or advertising purposes. The geolocation data is fetched live from ip-api.com on each page request and is not retained beyond the duration of the server response.

Every visit runs a completely fresh lookup. If you look up another IP via the search bar, that query appears in your browser's URL bar and may appear in standard web server access logs alongside any other page request, but is not stored in a dedicated analytics database or used for behavioural profiling. Standard server access logs that record request details for security and uptime monitoring are periodically rotated and not used for user tracking.

What is IPv6 and why might my address look different?

IPv6 is the successor to IPv4, designed to solve address exhaustion caused by the internet growing far beyond the roughly 4.3 billion addresses IPv4 can provide. IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long and written in eight groups of four hexadecimal digits separated by colons — for example 2001:0db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334. The address space is so large that every device on earth could have billions of unique IPv6 addresses simultaneously.

If you see an IPv6 address when you expected IPv4, it means your ISP has provisioned your connection with IPv6 and your browser preferred the IPv6 route. Your connection may be dual-stack — holding both simultaneously — or your ISP may have moved to IPv6-only with NAT64 for backward compatibility with IPv4 services. If this page shows an IPv4 address, your ISP either does not yet support IPv6 or your connection fell back to IPv4 for this request.