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IP Address Lookup

Look up geolocation, ISP, ASN, and timezone data for any IPv4 or IPv6 address — with automatic detection of your current IP.

Last updated: March 25, 2026

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The ASN lookup is what sets this apart from basic IP tools. Understanding which IPs belong to AWS vs Cloudflare vs ISPs is essential for firewall rule configuration.
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What is IP Address Lookup?

An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a numerical label assigned to every device on a network — IPv4 addresses are 32-bit values written as four octets (e.g., 93.184.216.34), while IPv6 addresses are 128-bit values written in hexadecimal groups (e.g., 2001:0db8:85a3::8a2e:0370:7334). Every public IP address is allocated to a specific geographic region and organization through the Regional Internet Registries (ARIN for North America, RIPE for Europe, APNIC for Asia-Pacific, etc.).

IP geolocation databases (like MaxMind GeoIP2, ip-api, and ipinfo.io) map IP ranges to approximate physical locations and network ownership. Lookups return: **Country and region** (from WHOIS registration data, reliable at country level), **City** (estimated from BGP routing geography, accurate within ~50km for most ISPs), **ISP/Organization** (from WHOIS and BGP routing tables), **ASN** (Autonomous System Number — the network operator number), and **Timezone** (derived from the geographic region). This tool auto-detects your current IP on load and lets you query any public IP address.

How to Use IP Address Lookup

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Your current public IP address is automatically detected and displayed when the page loads with all its geolocation data

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To look up a different IP address, type any valid IPv4 (e.g., 8.8.8.8) or IPv6 (e.g., 2001:4860:4860::8888) into the search field

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Press Enter or click "Look Up" — the results update with country, region, city, ISP, ASN, timezone, and coordinates

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Click any result card's copy icon to copy that value to your clipboard (useful for IP addresses, ASNs, and coordinate pairs)

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Click the coordinates link to open the approximate location in Google Maps for a geographic reference

Common Use Cases

  • Checking what IP address your VPN appears as to websites (confirm the VPN is routing through the expected country)
  • Verifying the geographic region of a server IP for compliance (GDPR data residency, US financial data rules)
  • Investigating a suspicious IP address in server access logs to identify the ISP or hosting provider
  • Looking up the ASN of a known hosting provider (AWS, Google Cloud, Cloudflare) to identify cloud-hosted traffic
  • Confirming your own public IP before adding it to a server allowlist or firewall rule
  • Debugging IP-based access control issues — verifying why a user's IP is being blocked by a geo-restriction rule
  • Identifying which country a scraping bot originates from by looking up IPs from your web server access logs
  • Checking if a developer's office IP is correctly identified before configuring IP-based MFA bypass rules

Example Input and Output

Looking up Google's public DNS server IP address:

IP input: 8.8.8.8
IP Address: 8.8.8.8
(Google's public DNS server)
Geolocation results
IP: 8.8.8.8

Country:      United States 🇺🇸
Region:       California
City:         Mountain View
ZIP:          94043
Coordinates:  37.4056, -122.0775
Timezone:     America/Los_Angeles (UTC-8)

Network:      Google LLC
ISP:          Google LLC
ASN:          AS15169
Org:          GOOGLE

Hostname:     dns.google
Is VPN/Proxy: No
Is Mobile:    No

Privacy Note

The IP address you query is sent to our IP geolocation API provider (ip-api.com or similar) to perform the lookup. This is a server-side DNS/whois query. The queried IP is not stored or logged by this site. For your own IP auto-detect, the detection request is sent from your browser, revealing your current IP to our server.

IP Ranges for Known Providers

To check if an IP belongs to a specific cloud provider: AWS publishes their IP ranges at ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json. Cloudflare publishes theirs at cloudflare.com/ips. Google Cloud: cloud.google.com/compute/docs/faq#find_ip_range. Use these for allowlist/blocklist configuration rather than relying on geolocation lookups, which can lag behind IP reassignment.

IPv4 Exhaustion and IPv6

IPv4 addresses (4.3 billion total) were effectively exhausted by 2019 — all major RIRs have depleted their free pools. ISPs now use CGNAT (Carrier-Grade NAT) where thousands of customers share one public IPv4. IPv6 (128-bit, 340 undecillion addresses) solves this but adoption is gradual — about 40% of internet traffic is IPv6 as of 2024. If you see a CGNAT IP (100.64.x.x range) or a shared residential IP appearing for many users, CGNAT is the likely cause.

Frequently Asked Questions

How accurate is IP geolocation data?
Country-level accuracy: >99% for most public IP addresses. City-level accuracy: highly variable — typically within 50 km for residential ISP IPs, often less accurate for mobile data networks (which route traffic through centralized data centers), business VPNs (may show the corporate headquarters location rather than the user's city), and cloud IPs (AWS/GCP/Azure IPs locate to the data center city). Never rely on IP geolocation for precise location — it is an approximation based on network routing data, not GPS.
Can I look up a private or internal IP address?
No. Private/reserved IP ranges are not routable on the public internet and don't exist in IP geolocation databases: 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16 (RFC 1918 private), 127.0.0.0/8 (loopback/localhost), 169.254.0.0/16 (APIPA link-local), 100.64.0.0/10 (CGNAT). These return an error because they have no geographic or ISP meaning — only devices within the same private network use these addresses.
What is an ASN and why does it matter?
An Autonomous System Number (ASN) identifies a network operated by a single organization with a unified routing policy on the internet. Each ISP, cloud provider, university, and large company has one or more ASNs. AS15169 is Google; AS16509 is Amazon AWS; AS13335 is Cloudflare; AS701 is Verizon. ASNs are important for: identifying which hosting provider serves an IP (security), blocking all IPs from a specific cloud provider (abuse prevention), and understanding BGP routing paths between networks.
Does looking up someone else's IP violate their privacy?
IP address geolocation data is publicly registered information — the association between IP ranges and their allocated organization and region is published by RIRs (Regional Internet Registries) in public WHOIS databases. Querying it is legal and does not expose personal data. However, using IP geolocation to track individuals (linking their IP to their identity and location) raises privacy concerns and is subject to GDPR and similar regulations when done for analytics or profiling of EU residents.
Why does my VPN show as "Mountain View, California" instead of my VPN server location?
This is a geolocation database lag. IP geolocation databases are updated regularly (MaxMind updates weekly) but VPN providers frequently rotate IP addresses. When a VPN provider acquires a new IP block, the geolocation database may still associate it with the previous owner's registration location. The database entry will update within days to weeks. Additionally, some VPN providers register their IPs under holding companies, causing registration-based lookups to show an unexpected city.
Is it possible to hide or spoof an IP address?
For web traffic: VPNs, proxies, and Tor route your traffic through servers with different IPs, so websites see the VPN/proxy server's IP, not yours. This replaces your IP but doesn't "spoof" it — the traffic does originate from the VPN server. For direct network connections: IP spoofing (sending packets with a false source IP) is possible at the network layer but responses go to the spoofed IP, making it useless for normal browsing. It's mainly used in DDoS reflection attacks. Modern network infrastructure and ISPs actively filter spoofed packets via BCP38.

How This Tool Works

The page auto-detects your IP by fetching a "what is my IP" API endpoint (api.ipify.org) which returns the public IP of the requesting browser. For any IP lookup, a request is made to the geolocation API (ip-api.com/json/{IP}?fields=...) which returns a JSON object with country, region, city, lat/lng, ISP, org, AS, timezone, and mobile/proxy flags. The response is displayed in categorized information cards. Coordinates are linked to a Google Maps URL for map visualization.

Technical Stack

ip-api.com geolocation APIipify.org IP detectionMaxMind GeoLite2 databaseRFC 1918 validation