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IP Address Lookup

An IP address lookup shows the approximate location and the network behind any public IP address. Enter an IPv4 or IPv6 address to see its country, region, city, coordinates and ASN.

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How to use the IP Address Lookup

  1. Type or paste a public IP address into the input box, for example 8.8.8.8 or an IPv6 address.
  2. Press Look up.
  3. Read the report: country, region or state, city, coordinates and the network (ASN and organisation).
  4. Use Copy or Download to keep the result.

What an IP address lookup shows

An IP address lookup takes a public IP address and returns the approximate location and the network it belongs to. This tool reports the country, region or state and city where the address is registered, its approximate latitude and longitude, and the autonomous system (ASN) and organisation that operates the network. It works for both IPv4 addresses such as 8.8.8.8 and IPv6 addresses.

The result is an estimate, not a precise position. The data comes from a free, offline database (DB-IP Lite) that maps ranges of addresses to the place where each range is registered and routed, so the answer describes the network, not the person using it. The free database does not include every field a paid one does: a postal code or time zone, for example, is not provided, so the report shows only the fields the database actually holds for an address.

Example output

IP address:         8.8.8.8
IP version:         IPv4
Reverse DNS:        dns.google
Country:            United States (US)
Region / state:     California
City:               Mountain View
Coordinates:        37.4220, -122.0850 (approximate)
ASN:                AS15169
Organisation / ISP: Google LLC

Alongside the location you get the reverse DNS (PTR) hostname for the address, looked up live, the same way the IP to Hostname tool does it. To see your own address instead of someone else's, use What Is My IP Address.

How accurate is it?

Country-level results are usually right. City and region are approximate: a free database like this is often accurate only to the wider metro area or to the registration city of the internet provider, which can be far from the actual user. Business, data-centre, mobile and satellite addresses are the least reliable, because the address range may be registered in one city while the customers are spread across a country. If the city looks wrong, that is expected rather than a bug.

Mobile networks and carrier-grade NAT make this worse, because many subscribers share one public address that is anchored to a single gateway. A VPN or proxy moves the apparent location to wherever the exit server sits, so the lookup shows the VPN's city, not yours.

What it does not do

This IP address lookup does not tell you whether an address is a VPN, an anonymising proxy or an actively used Tor relay, and it does not calculate a fraud or risk score. Those answers need a commercial IP-reputation service that tracks hosting providers and proxy networks in real time, which a static offline database cannot do. The tool is for locating and identifying networks, not for blocking or scoring visitors.

How the lookup runs

The lookup runs on our server against a local copy of the database. Your query is not sent to any third-party geolocation API, and there is no per-lookup call to an outside service. Private, loopback and reserved addresses (such as 192.168.0.0/16 or 127.0.0.1) are rejected, because they have no public location; enter a routable public address instead. To work out which network a range belongs to, pair this with the CIDR calculator, and to check the DNS records of a domain use DNS Lookup.

Common uses

  • See which country and network a server, crawler or suspicious login came from.
  • Confirm that a VPN or proxy is sending traffic from the region you expect.
  • Identify the hosting provider or ISP behind an address from its ASN and organisation.
  • See the approximate coordinates and area an address maps to.

IP geolocation data is provided by the DB-IP Lite database and is licensed under CC BY 4.0. The database is refreshed every month, so recently reassigned ranges may take a little time to appear.

Frequently asked questions

Why is the city wrong or only approximate?
IP geolocation maps blocks of addresses to the place where the provider registers and routes them, which is often the provider's city rather than the user's. A free database like DB-IP Lite is usually accurate at country level but only approximate for region and city, and can be off by a long way for mobile, business and data-centre addresses.
Can this tool detect a VPN, proxy or Tor?
No. It reports the registered location and network of an address, but it does not flag whether the address is a VPN, an anonymising proxy or an active Tor relay. Reliably detecting those needs a commercial IP-reputation service that is updated continuously.
Does it give a fraud or risk score?
No. A fraud score combines proxy detection, abuse history and other live signals that an offline database does not contain. This tool is for locating and identifying a network, not for scoring or blocking visitors.
Does the lookup send my query to another website?
No. The lookup runs on our server against a local copy of the DB-IP Lite database, so there is no per-lookup request to a third-party geolocation API. The only live request is the optional reverse DNS lookup for the hostname.
Which addresses can I look up?
Any public IPv4 or IPv6 address. Private, loopback and reserved addresses such as 192.168.1.1 or 127.0.0.1 are rejected because they are not routed on the internet and have no public location. To find your own public address, use the What Is My IP Address tool.
Where does the data come from and how current is it?
From the free DB-IP Lite database, licensed under CC BY 4.0. It is refreshed monthly, so a range that was recently reassigned to a different network or location may take a few weeks to show the new details.

Last updated October 21, 2026

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