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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Well-known addresses — check any in one click
These are the addresses people look up most often: public DNS servers and the service addresses of home networks. Click any of them to run the lookup, and read below what each one actually means.
Public DNS serversAddresses people put into their network settings instead of the provider’s
Service addressesFrequently searched for, yet no such device exists on the internet
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.
8.8.8.8, 1.1.1.1 and other public DNS servers
The most “famous” addresses on the internet are not websites but DNS servers. DNS works like a phone book: it turns a readable name such as example.com into the numeric address a browser can connect to. Every provider runs its own DNS servers, and a few are public and open to everyone:
- 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 — Google Public DNS, the most recognisable address on the internet: short, easy to remember, and therefore searched for more than any other;
- 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 — Cloudflare DNS, built together with APNIC and advertised as fast and free of query logs;
- 9.9.9.9 — Quad9, a non-profit project that additionally blocks known malicious domains;
- 208.67.222.222 — OpenDNS (now part of Cisco), one of the oldest public resolvers;
- 94.140.14.14 — AdGuard DNS, which filters ads and trackers at the name level.
Look any of them up above and you will see they all live in data centres and belong to specific companies — the normal picture for infrastructure addresses.
192.168.1.1 and 192.168.0.1 are your router
If you were searching for these, what you need is not a search engine but the address bar: type the address there and the web panel of your home router opens — the place where the Wi-Fi password lives. No such device exists on the internet: the ranges 192.168.*, 10.* and 172.16–31.* are reserved for internal networks, and the very same 192.168.1.1 sits in millions of routers worldwide. That is why the lookup honestly answers “home or office network” instead of inventing a country.
127.0.0.1, 0.0.0.0 and 255.255.255.255 are service addresses
- 127.0.0.1 (also known as localhost) — the device talking to itself; developers run local sites on it;
- 0.0.0.0 — “address not set” or “any address”. There is no device behind it, it is a placeholder in configuration;
- 255.255.255.255 — the broadcast address: a message goes to everyone on the local network at once. Not a device either.
Does changing DNS restore access?
A common piece of internet advice is “set 8.8.8.8 and everything will work”. Sometimes that is true: when a provider tampers with DNS answers, another resolver helps. Far more often the restriction works on the service’s own address or on the type of traffic — the name resolves and the connection still fails, so changing DNS changes nothing. That is exactly why a VPN solves the wider problem: the whole route and the address you arrive from change. What the internet sees in the process is covered in “What an IP address reveals”.
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 up — that is the neighbouring page, “Is the site down”, which checks from both sides at once. 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”.
What are 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1?
They are public DNS servers: 8.8.8.8 belongs to Google, 1.1.1.1 to Cloudflare and 9.9.9.9 to the non-profit Quad9 project. A DNS server turns a site name into an address — the phone book of the internet. People sometimes put these addresses into their network settings instead of the provider’s own servers.
Does changing DNS restore access to a service?
Sometimes — if a provider tampers with DNS answers, another server helps. More often the restriction works on the service’s own address or on the type of traffic, and then changing DNS changes nothing: the name resolves and the connection still fails. A VPN solves the wider problem because it changes the route and the address you arrive from.
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.