IP Info
Your public IP address, connection type (IPv4 / IPv6), location, and network info.
How to use
- Open the page and your public IPv4 or IPv6 address appears at the top.
- Check the ISP, country, region, and approximate city below.
- Open the headers panel to see what your browser sends to every site.
- Copy individual fields or the full report to share with support.
- Use the refresh button to re-check after switching networks or VPNs.
Frequently asked questions
Is the IP location exact?
No. Geo-IP databases place addresses to a city or region with reasonable accuracy but they cannot pinpoint a street address. ISPs sometimes rotate addresses across cities, so the displayed city may be hundreds of miles off.
Why is my IPv6 address shown instead of IPv4?
Many modern networks prefer IPv6 when both are available, and your browser uses whichever was negotiated. The tool shows the address that actually reached our server.
Is my IP address shared with third parties?
Your IP is the public address every website you visit can see. The page does not log it; only the geo lookup uses it to fetch location data, and that lookup is anonymous.
Can a VPN hide my IP?
Yes. With a VPN connected, the displayed IP will be the VPN exit node, not your home IP. WebRTC can sometimes leak the real local address, which is also flagged on this page when detected.
What your IP address actually reveals
An IP address identifies your network's edge on the internet... typically your router, not your device. From it, public databases reliably derive your ISP and country, usually your region, and only approximately your city: geolocation maps the ISP's infrastructure, so it routinely places users in a neighbouring town or the ISP's regional hub. It does not contain your name, street address or browsing history; connecting an IP to a person requires the ISP's subscriber records, which is exactly what legal processes request.
Public vs private addresses
- Devices on your home network use private ranges... 192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x, 172.16-31.x.x... that never appear on the internet.
- Your router translates between them and your single public IP (NAT), which is why every device in your house shows the same public address to websites.
- Most home connections use dynamic public IPs that change occasionally; servers pay for static ones.
IPv4 exhaustion and the IPv6 transition
IPv4's 32 bits allow about 4.3 billion addresses, exhausted years ago and now traded and shared via carrier-grade NAT. IPv6's 128 bits allow 3.4 x 10^38... enough to never share again... and adoption now covers nearly half of global traffic, so seeing an address full of colons and hex (2a02:...) is normal. A VPN, finally, swaps the IP story entirely: sites see the VPN server's address and location, which is the whole mechanism behind both the privacy benefit and the "your IP says you are in Frankfurt" effect.
When checking your IP is actually useful
- Verifying a VPN: before trusting it, confirm the displayed IP and country changed... and that they revert when disconnected.
- Remote access and allowlists: services that whitelist by IP need your current public address, and "it stopped working" often just means the dynamic IP rotated.
- Diagnosing geo-blocks: when a site insists you are somewhere you are not, the lookup shows what the site sees, ending the argument with evidence.
- Spotting carrier NAT: a mobile IP geolocating to a distant city is normal pooling, not a compromise.
- Confirming IPv6: if your address contains colons, your connection is dual-stack, relevant when debugging services that behave differently per protocol.
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