Try one:
Approximate location (country, city, coordinates)
Accuracy radius
Type (IPv4 or IPv6)
ISP & organization
ASN & ASN owner
Your name
Your street address
Your phone number
Your browsing history
Your device info
Connecting an IP to a person requires a subpoena or court order directed at the ISP. Because dynamic IPs are reassigned, even law enforcement needs an exact timestamp to map an address to a name.
When one of our server IPs showed up in a court case in Greece, there was nothing to hand over: we keep no logs. Read the story. We log all legal requests in our transparency report.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is an IP Lookup?
An IP lookup is a database check that reports what is publicly associated with a public IP address. This tool reads local GeoIP2 databases for the approximate country, region, city, and coordinates, plus the ISP, organization, ASN, and ASN owner behind the address. It supports both IPv4 and IPv6. Results describe networks, not individual people, and some fields may be unavailable.
Someone's Harassing Me. What Can I Do With Their IP?
Look up the IP to get the ISP and country, then include them in your report to the platform's moderators or the ISP's abuse desk. They're the ones who can act on it. Don't try to identify the person yourself, hack back, or post their details. Hacking back is a crime, and sharing someone's details is doxxing.
How Accurate Is the Location?
The country is usually right. The region is less certain, and the city is an estimate that can be off, because databases infer location from registration records and routing, not GPS. A lookup never shows a street address. Even our own servers in 69+ countries regularly get placed in the wrong city, and corrections can take weeks to spread.
Can I Look Up IPv6 Addresses?
Yes. Enter any public IPv6 address, like 2606:4700:4700::1111, and you’ll see the same fields as IPv4: approximate location, ISP, organization, ASN, and ASN owner. Coverage can be thinner, so some fields may be blank. IPv6 privacy extensions also rotate addresses, so an old address may no longer point to the same connection.
Why Does 192.168.1.1 Return Nothing?
192.168.1.1 is a private address, used inside home and office networks rather than on the public internet. Millions of routers use it at the same time, so there’s no single record to look up. The same goes for addresses in 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and 127.0.0.0/8. Enter one, and the tool explains this instead of showing an error.
What’s the Difference Between IP Lookup, Tracing, and Tracking?
An IP lookup is a one-time database check of an address’s location and network, which is what this tool does. IP tracing follows the route your traffic takes between two points (a traceroute) and is a network diagnostic. IP tracking means monitoring an IP’s activity over time, which needs server logs or software on the device. No public tool can do that.
Can an IP Lookup Identify a Person?
No. A lookup shows the network an IP belongs to, like the ISP and ASN owner, not the person using it. Only the ISP knows which customer held an IP at a given moment, and it shares that only under a subpoena or court order with an exact timestamp. Sites selling paid “owner reports” are guessing.
Is It Legal to Look Up an IP Address?
In most countries, yes. A lookup only reads public databases about networks, the same data websites check every time you visit them. Legal trouble starts with what you do with the result: harassing someone, trying to hack their device, or posting their details online can all be crimes. If you need the person behind an IP, report it and let the platform or police act.
How Do I Find the IP Behind an Email?
Open the email’s full headers (in Gmail, “Show original”) and look for the “Received” lines, which list each server the message passed through. The sender’s IP is usually in the earliest one. Large providers like Gmail and Outlook often hide it, so you may only see their servers. Paste any IP you find into the tool above.
Can I Get Someone’s IP From a Phone Number?
No. Phone numbers and IP addresses run on separate networks, and no public database links them. Your carrier knows which IP your phone uses for mobile data, but it doesn’t publish that. Mobile IPs are also shared by many users at once and change often, so even an IP you found wouldn’t point to one phone.
Why Does My Lookup Show the Wrong City?
IP databases estimate location from registration records and routing data, not GPS. If you’re on a VPN, mobile data, or a work network, your traffic may exit in another city. Databases also update on their own schedules, so a recently moved address range can still show an old location. That’s why different lookup sites can show different cities for the same IP.
What Is Reverse IP Lookup?
A reverse IP lookup starts with an IP and finds the hostnames or domains tied to it, using reverse DNS records. It’s useful for seeing which websites share a server or which company runs an address. It doesn’t find people. A home IP usually returns a generic ISP hostname, if anything.
Who Owns My IP Address?
Your ISP. It holds a block of addresses and assigns one to your connection, which is why a lookup shows its name, not yours. The ASN owner is the company that routes that block, and it can differ from the brand you pay (for example, izzi and Cablevision). Home IPs often change, so your address may later go to someone else.