IP address lookup
Enter any IP address — yours or someone else’s — and see what open network data says about it: country, approximate city, provider, network number and connection type. This is the same information any website sees when a request arrives from that address.
Enter an address — we will show the country, city, provider and network type.
- IP address
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- Location
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- Provider
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- Network (ASN)
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- Network type
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- Time zone
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What the lookup shows
- Country — the most reliable part, and exactly what services look at when they decide whether to let you in;
- City and region — approximate, derived from the provider’s range rather than from a device;
- Provider and network number (ASN) — who owns the range of addresses;
- Network type — data centre, mobile carrier or home connection;
- The network’s time zone — a rough time bracket, nothing personal.
When it comes in handy
- Check where your VPN “is”. Press “Use my own address” with the VPN on: you should see the server’s country and the network type “data centre”. The shorter version of the same check is “What is my IP”.
- See where a message or a request came from. Service headers of an e-mail and server logs often carry an address — the lookup tells you the country and the provider behind it.
- Understand why a service shows the wrong language or prices. Nine times out of ten it is the country of your address.
- Tell a home address from a server one. Useful when a site complains about a “suspicious sign-in”: data-centre addresses often get a colder welcome.
What this tool does not do
Honest limits again. It does not find a person behind an address — nobody has that in open data, and services promising to “track someone by IP” sell exactly what you already see here. It does not check whether a site is blocked: our server sits abroad and sees the internet differently from your provider. And it is not a free API: the number of lookups per minute is limited so the page stays fast for people.
If you want to change your own address
Changing the address is what a VPN does for a living: sites start seeing a protected server in another country while your home address stays with you. You can verify it right here — switch the VPN on, press “Use my own address” and compare the country and network type with what you had before.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I look up an IP address?
Type the address in the field above and press “Look up”. Within a couple of seconds you get the country, the approximate city, the provider, the network number (ASN), the time zone and the network type. Both IPv4 (198.51.100.7) and IPv6 (2001:4860:4860::8888) work. To see your own address, press “Use my own address”.
How accurate is the city?
The country is almost always right; the city is approximate. Geolocation databases know which provider owns a range of addresses, not where a particular computer stands, so people often see a neighbouring town instead of their own. A street or a building cannot be derived from an IP at all.
What does “network type: data centre” mean?
The address belongs to a server in a data centre rather than to a home or mobile connection. Hosting providers, cloud servers and VPN services look like this. “Mobile carrier” means a cellular network, and “home or office” is an ordinary connection from an internet provider.
Why does 192.168.1.1 return nothing?
Addresses like that are internal: they are used inside home and office networks and never reach the internet. The very same 192.168.1.1 sits in millions of routers, so it cannot have a country or a provider. The same goes for 127.0.0.1 — that is the device talking to itself.
Can an IP address identify a person?
No. What you see here is the provider and an approximate region — not a name, an address or a phone number. Details about a specific subscriber exist only at the provider, and they are released through a lawful official request, not to private individuals. The full explainer is in “What an IP address reveals”.
Do you store the addresses I enter?
No. The request is handled on our server and is not tied to you or your account; the result lives on the screen while the page is open. To keep the tool from being used as a free API by other people’s scripts, the number of lookups per minute is limited.