Find location and ISP information for any IP address
This tool uses external APIs
Unlike other HandyTools Hub which are 100% client-side, this tool sends your IP address to third-party services (ipify.org, ipwho.is, ipinfo.io). Your IP data will be processed by these external services.
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IP Lookup shows your public IP address as soon as the page loads, together with its approximate location, internet provider, and organization, and lets you look up any other IPv4 or IPv6 address on demand. It is used to confirm that a VPN is working, to make sense of an unfamiliar address in a server log, and to find your public address when setting up remote access.
An IP address identifies a network interface on the internet, not a person and not a device. From a lookup you can reliably learn:
What you cannot learn is more important. No name, no street address, and no phone number appears in a lookup, because those records sit with the ISP and are not public. Geodata is also approximate by design — a database maps a range to a region, and the physical device can be hundreds of kilometers away. Treat the result as a hint about the network, never as proof of who is behind it.
That distinction answers the most common myth: “someone has my IP, so they can find me.” They can find your provider and your general area, which is why the address is a privacy consideration, but it is not a location tracker.
Example 1 — checking a VPN. Connect to the VPN and look up your address. The country and ISP should change to the VPN provider’s. If the address is unchanged or the ISP still shows your home provider, traffic is leaking outside the tunnel — often a DNS or split-tunneling configuration issue rather than the VPN itself being broken.
Example 2 — triaging a log entry. An admin sees repeated failed logins from an unfamiliar address. The lookup reports that it belongs to a hosting provider rather than a residential ISP, which points to automated scanning from a rented server. That changes the response: block the range at the firewall rather than treat it as a single visitor.
Example 3 — remote access setup. Before configuring a home server or an allowlist, you need your current public address. The tool reports it, and a follow-up check the next day shows whether your ISP has rotated it — useful to know before you hardcode anything.
IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses written as four decimal numbers; it provides about 4.3 billion values, a pool that was exhausted at the registry level years ago. IPv6 uses 128 bits written as hexadecimal groups and offers an effectively inexhaustible space. Most networks now run both, so a connection can have an IPv4 and an IPv6 public address, and a site may see one or the other depending on how it is reached.
Residential addresses are usually dynamic, reassigned when the lease renews or the connection drops. This is one reason an address in yesterday’s log may not correspond to the same household today, which is a good argument against treating IPs as durable identifiers for users.
Geolocation is inference, not measurement. Databases associate ranges with registration records, and those records reflect where the ISP registered the block, not where the subscriber lives. Mobile traffic makes it worse: a phone may be routed through a regional gateway hundreds of kilometers away, so the lookup places it in a city the user has never visited. VPNs and corporate proxies introduce deliberate distance. If the result disagrees with reality, the database is usually doing exactly what it was designed to do — and the discrepancy is not a bug.
HandyTools Hub does not store it. The lookup is performed by sending your address to third-party geolocation APIs (such as ipwho.is, ipinfo.io, and ipify.org), which return the details shown on the page. Those providers process the request under their own policies; the result is not written to a database here. If that is a concern, use the tool only to look up addresses other than your own.
It is approximate. Geolocation databases map large IP ranges to the regions where they are registered, so the reported city is usually right at the metro level and wrong at the street level. A home connection may appear in the ISP's nearest hub rather than your town, and mobile networks frequently place users in a different city entirely.
Most home and mobile connections receive a dynamic address that changes when the lease expires or the router reconnects. Some ISPs rotate addresses more aggressively than others, and a mobile handover between cell towers can change it mid-session. A stable IP usually means either a business connection with a static assignment or a VPN.
No. A public IP is tied to an ISP and a service region, not to a street address. Only the ISP holds the subscriber records that connect an IP to a customer, and those are released through legal process or a specific abuse complaint, not through a lookup tool. This is why geolocation never resolves to a house number.
Both are supported and detected automatically. IPv4 addresses are 32-bit values written as four numbers, like 203.0.113.10, while IPv6 addresses are 128-bit and written in hexadecimal groups separated by colons. Because the IPv4 pool ran out years ago, most modern networks run both side by side, and your connection may have one public address of each type.
Yes — looking up an address you received in a log is exactly the intended use. Be aware that the lookup reveals nothing about the person behind it beyond the network and rough region, so use it for triage (is this traffic from a hosting provider?) rather than identification, and follow your own privacy rules before acting on it.
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