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IP address lookup
Look up the location, internet provider and network details behind any public IP address.
What an IP lookup can tell you
Every public IP address is allocated to an organisation, and that allocation is a matter of public record. A lookup joins the address to the registry data and to a commercial geolocation database, returning the operator, the autonomous system, and an estimate of where the block is used.
Geolocation
Country, region and city are estimates derived from routing data, registry records and operator-published information. Country is reliable. City frequently is not — a residential connection may be attributed to the provider's regional hub tens of kilometres away, and mobile traffic often surfaces at whichever gateway the carrier routes through.
Network operator and ASN
The ASN is usually the most dependable field. It identifies the network that announces the address block to the rest of the internet, which tells you whether an address belongs to a residential provider, a hosting company, a corporate network or a VPN operator — a genuinely useful distinction when investigating traffic.
Practical uses
- Diagnosing routing. Confirm where a connection actually terminates when latency looks wrong.
- Verifying a VPN. Check that your traffic exits where you expect it to.
- Reviewing logs. Determine whether unexpected traffic came from a datacentre or a residential connection.
- Configuring firewalls. Identify the operator behind an address before allowing or blocking it.
What it cannot tell you
It cannot identify a person, a household or a street address, and it cannot reliably distinguish individual users behind carrier-grade NAT, where thousands share one address. Treat every geolocation result as an estimate with real error bars, and never as evidence about an individual.
To see your own address instead, use What is my IP, or check each protocol separately with the IPv4 and IPv6 checkers.
Frequently asked questions
How accurate is IP geolocation?
Country-level accuracy is very high, typically above 95%. City-level accuracy is far weaker — commonly 50 to 80% and much worse on mobile networks, where a whole region may route through one facility. An IP address cannot give street-level accuracy, and any service claiming otherwise is guessing.
What is an ASN?
An Autonomous System Number identifies a network that controls its own routing policy — an internet provider, a hosting company, a large enterprise. Written as AS15169 or similar, it tells you which organisation actually operates the address block, which is often more useful than the city estimate.
Why can I not look up a private IP address?
Private addresses such as 192.168.1.1 or 10.0.0.5 exist independently inside millions of separate networks, so there is no single owner and no location to report. IPGet rejects them rather than returning a meaningless result.
Can I find someone’s identity from their IP address?
No. Geolocation returns the provider and approximate service area, nothing more. Linking an address to a subscriber requires the provider’s own records, which are released only through a legal process.