Enter an IP address to look up its location, ISP, organization, and Autonomous System details. Works with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from anywhere in the world.
Accepts IPv4 (for example 8.8.8.8) or IPv6 (for example 2001:4860:4860::8888). Leave it blank and press Search to look up your own address.
IP Lookup Results
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Location is an estimate, not GPS: country is usually right, city can be far off. How accurate is this result? · Methodology
Geolocation map
The marker shows the approximate coordinates returned for this IP address, which is usually the centre of the city or the ISP network hub, not a street address. The map is provided by OpenStreetMap; use its zoom buttons to look closer.
An IP lookup shows where an address is registered and which organization it is assigned to. Enter an address above to see its country, region, city, ISP, organization and Autonomous System number. MaxMind reports country accuracy above 99% when VPN use is excluded, while city accuracy ranges from roughly 20% to 75%, so treat the city as a hint.
Built and tested by Pavel Ahmed · Last updated October 5, 2026
What Is IP Lookup and What Does It Do?
What does this tool do?
Our IP lookup tool identifies the geographical location and network details behind any IP address. For both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, it reports the country, region, city, ISP, organization, and Autonomous System number associated with that address.
Why is this useful?
Looking up an IP address helps you understand where your traffic is coming from, spot suspicious activity, and troubleshoot network issues. It is commonly used by security professionals, website administrators, and anyone curious about how the internet's underlying infrastructure works.
Who uses this tool?
• Security professionals: Investigate alerts and suspicious login attempts.
• Web administrators: Analyze visitor patterns and optimize content delivery.
• Network engineers: Troubleshoot connectivity issues and routing problems.
• Digital marketers: Understand audience demographics and geographic distribution.
• Researchers and students: Learn how IP addressing and internet infrastructure work.
How Do You Use This Tool?
1. Enter an IP address into the search field (IPv4 like 8.8.8.8 or IPv6 like 2001:4860:4860::8888), or leave it blank to look up your own.
2. Click Search, or press Enter, to run the lookup.
3. Review the results using the Summary view, Detailed view, or Privacy info tab.
4. Use the map to see the approximate location.
5. Copy the results to share or record your diagnostics.
Example
Try Google's public DNS server, 8.8.8.8, then Cloudflare's, 1.1.1.1. Both are anycast addresses: the same address is announced from many datacentres at once, so the single city in the record can only be a best guess for where the service runs. The AS number is the steadier part of the answer — it names the company that announces the address, whichever node you reach.
Example inputs and what this page does with them
The inputs below come from ranges reserved for documentation (203.0.113.0/24 is TEST-NET-3 in RFC 5737; 2001:db8::/32 is the IPv6 documentation prefix), so none of them points at a real network. The table shows the format check and the version label the page applies before and after the lookup; it does not show geolocation results, because documentation addresses are not expected to have any.
| Input | Format check | Version label | What happens next |
|---|---|---|---|
203.0.113.10 |
Passes | IPv4 (32-bit) | Sent to the lookup service. A documentation address is not expected to return a real city, ISP or AS; fields without data read “Not available”. |
2001:db8::1 |
Passes | IPv6 (128-bit) | Sent to the lookup service. Same expectation as above for the IPv6 documentation prefix. |
::ffff:192.0.2.128 |
Passes (IPv4-mapped form) | IPv6 (128-bit) | Labelled IPv6 because it contains a colon, even though it wraps an IPv4 address from TEST-NET-1. |
203.0.113.256 |
Fails | None | Rejected in the browser: 256 is outside 0–255. No request is sent. |
8.8.8 |
Fails | None | Rejected in the browser: an IPv4 address needs four parts. No request is sent. |
2001:db8:::1 |
Passes (shape check only) | IPv6 (128-bit) | Not a valid IPv6 address, but the browser-side check only tests the characters and that a colon is present, so it is sent on and the lookup service decides what to return. |
Public IP vs private IP vs VPN — how they relate
How Do You Read the Results?
IP address and IP version
The address the rest of the result belongs to, echoed back so there is no doubt which one was looked up, and whether it is a 32-bit IPv4 address or a 128-bit IPv6 one. On a blank search this is your own public address, which is what the page shows when it loads.
Country / Region / City
The geographic location where the IP address is registered — not necessarily the exact location of the person using it. Mobile networks and VPNs commonly show a different location than the actual user.
Postal code
The postal or ZIP code held for that area. It comes out of the same city-level record, so it is right about as often as the city is — and it is empty more often, because plenty of address ranges carry no postal code at all.
Coordinates
Latitude and longitude, printed to four decimal places. Four places looks like street-level precision and is not: the figures are the centre of a city or of an ISP's service area, so read them as a label for a region rather than a point on a road. They are also what the marker on the map uses.
ISP (Internet Service Provider)
The company providing internet access for this IP address — typically a residential or mobile carrier, or a hosting provider for server IPs.
Organization
The entity that owns or controls the block of IP addresses. This is often the ISP, but it can also be a separate company or institution.
AS number
The Autonomous System that announces this address — a group of IP networks under one administrative authority, defined in RFC 1930. The row prints this field exactly as the lookup returns it, so it may be the number on its own or the number followed by the operator's name. It is the steadiest part of a result: an address can move city in the database without its AS changing.
Timezone
The local timezone tied to this address, given as an IANA zone name such as Asia/Dhaka rather than an offset — useful for understanding when traffic from that IP is typically active. It is derived from the country and region, so it inherits their accuracy.
Privacy info tab
A quick heuristic, not a threat-intelligence lookup. It scans the ISP, organization, and AS name for hosting and datacenter keywords, because commercial VPNs often run on rented server infrastructure. It does not query the Tor exit list or any open-proxy scanner, so treat it as a hint and confirm anything important with the VPN Checker or Proxy Check.
Not available
Any row can read Not available. That is the tool being straight with you rather than breaking: the lookup came back without that field. It happens most often with the postal code and the coordinates, and it is normal for reserved ranges, carrier-grade NAT addresses (the shared 100.64.0.0/10 block described in RFC 6598) and some IPv6 blocks.
What looks normal and what deserves a second look
None of these signs proves anything by itself. They are reasons to check another source, not conclusions.
| Field | Usually normal | Worth a second look |
|---|---|---|
| Country | The country where you expect the network to operate. | A country that differs from where the user says they are. A VPN, a mobile carrier or an outdated record can all cause this. |
| Region / City | The right area, often the nearest large city. | A city far from the user, or the same city for many unrelated users, which can point to an ISP hub or a mobile gateway. |
| Postal code | Plausible for the city shown, or “Not available”. | A postal code that does not belong to the city shown. |
| Coordinates | Near the centre of a city or an ISP service area. | Coordinates sitting in the middle of a whole country or region can mean only coarse data was available. |
| ISP | A consumer, mobile or business carrier. | A hosting company, cloud provider or a name containing “VPN” for an address you expected to be a home connection. |
| Organization | The same company as the ISP, or an institution that holds the block. | An unrelated hosting company where a home or office user is expected. |
| AS number | An AS that belongs to the ISP you expected. | An AS run by a datacentre or hosting network where an ISP network is expected. |
| Timezone | A zone that fits the country and region shown. | A zone from a different country than the one shown, which usually points to mixed or stale data. |
ISP vs organization vs AS number
These three rows are the ones people most often mix up. They often show the same company, but they answer different questions.
| Question | ISP | Organization | AS number |
|---|---|---|---|
| What does it name? | The company providing internet access for the address. | The entity that holds or controls the block of addresses. | The routing network that announces the address. |
| What does it look like? | A carrier or hosting company name. | Often the same name as the ISP; sometimes a business, school or reseller. | A number, sometimes followed by the operator's name. |
| How can it differ from the others? | It can be a reseller using another company's network. | A company can hold addresses while buying connectivity elsewhere. | One company can operate more than one AS. |
| Best used for | Judging whether an address looks like a home, mobile or datacentre connection. | Working out who a block belongs to, for example before sending an abuse report. | Telling networks apart when names are spelled differently, since the number tends to be steadier than the name. |
Important accuracy notes
• Geolocation accuracy varies: Country-level data is usually reliable, but city-level data can be far off, particularly on mobile networks.
• Mobile IPs are less precise: Mobile devices often show the location of a cell tower or carrier hub, not the user.
• VPNs and proxies mask real locations: These services intentionally hide the user's actual location. Use our VPN Checker to confirm whether an IP belongs to a known VPN provider.
• Corporate networks may show headquarters: Large organizations often route all traffic through a central location.
How the IP lookup is worked out
About the data
Every result comes from one request to ip.myipshow.com, which returns a single location and network record for the address. That service draws on Cloudflare Radar and ipwho.is, and may cache a lookup for a short time (up to six hours, or thirty minutes when no city is found). This page has no fallback source of its own: if the request fails, it says so instead of substituting another one. Records are refreshed on the providers' schedule, so read any result as a snapshot rather than a live reading.
The lookup runs in three stages, and each stage can drop data before the next one sees it:
- Client-side format check. Before anything leaves the browser, the address is matched against an IPv4 pattern (four octets, each 0–255) and an IPv6 pattern (hex groups containing at least one colon, including IPv4-mapped forms). An address that fails both is rejected on the spot and no request is sent — which is why a typo like
8.8.8orhellonever reaches the API. The IPv6 pattern is a shape check, not a full validator, so a malformed address made only of hex digits and colons can still pass and be sent on. - One upstream lookup. The validated address — or, on a blank search, your own — is sent to
ip.myipshow.com. One request, one response. Unlike a VPN check that chains several providers and reconciles their answers, this page reads a single record and does not merge a second opinion. If that request fails, the page reports the reason instead of falling back to another source. - Field normalisation. The upstream returns some fields under more than one key depending on the address type. The page picks them in a fixed order:
country_namebeforecountry(so the row reads Bangladesh, not BD),regionbeforeregionName. The ISP row takesisp, thenconnection.isp, thenorg; the Organization row goes the other way round, takingorgfirst and the ISP only as a fallback. Any field whose value starts with “Unknown”, “Not available”, “Not found”, “N/A”, “None” or “null” is treated as absent and printed as Not available, so a missing answer never looks like a found one.
How the Privacy info tab is calculated
That tab is a keyword scan, not a threat-intelligence query. It joins the ISP, organization and AS name into one lowercase string and walks it against a fixed list — vpn, hosting, datacenter, cloud, server, plus named providers such as ovh, digitalocean, hetzner, m247, aws, azure and google cloud — and reports the first term that matches. Matching is by text fragment, so a name that merely contains one of those words can match too. Four consequences follow from that design, and the tab states them plainly:
- If no ISP, organization or AS name came back at all, the row reads Cannot be judged rather than guessing. There is nothing to scan.
- A corporate or cloud-hosted connection can match a hosting keyword and be flagged even with no VPN in the path.
- A residential proxy will not match any term and will not be flagged. The tab does not query the Tor exit list or any open-proxy scanner, and says so in its own rows.
- Because the match is on text, a consumer ISP whose name happens to contain a listed word could be flagged by mistake.
Read the tab as one signal among several, not a verdict. For a result that pulls in more sources, run the same address through the VPN Checker or Proxy Check.
When Would You Use This Tool?
Security investigation
Trace the origin of suspicious login attempts, spam, or unusual traffic on your network, and combine the result with other tools for a fuller threat profile.
Website analytics
Identify where your visitors are coming from to improve content delivery, server placement, or regional marketing decisions.
Network troubleshooting
Diagnose routing issues, verify CDN performance, or trace connectivity problems across a network path. Pair it with the Ping Tool or a DNS Lookup to see whether a host answers and which address its name points to.
Compliance and geo-blocking
Check whether geo-restriction rules behave as intended. Because location data is approximate, this is a sanity check rather than proof of compliance with any regional data protection requirement.
What Technical Details Does the Lookup Return?
A full IP lookup typically returns the following categories of information:
Basic IP information
• IP address (query): The exact IPv4 or IPv6 address that was resolved.
• IP version: Whether it is a 32-bit IPv4 or a 128-bit IPv6 address.
Geographical data
Figures for country, region and city come from MaxMind's guidance on IP geolocation accuracy, one of the primary database providers (checked October 2, 2026). That page does not give figures for postal code, coordinates or timezone, so those rows say so instead of quoting a number.
| Field | Description | Accuracy level | Common issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | The country where the IP is registered | Above 99% when VPN use is excluded | Weaker where a VPN, proxy or satellite network is involved |
| Region / state | State, province, or administrative region | Roughly 55–80%, depending on the country | Mobile networks often resolve to a broad area |
| City | City or metropolitan area | Roughly 20–75%; usually better for large, dense cities on residential networks | Often shows the ISP hub location |
| Postal code | ZIP or postal code for the area | No figure published in that source; expect it to be no better than the city | Comes from the same coarse record as the city |
| Coordinates | Latitude and longitude | Approximate | Usually the centre of the city or ISP area |
| Timezone | Local timezone for the location | No figure published in that source | Inherits the accuracy of the country and region |
Network information
• ISP (Internet Service Provider): The company that assigned this IP address to a connection — examples include Comcast, Deutsche Telekom, and Verizon.
• Organization: The owner or operator of the IP block. This may be the ISP itself, or a separate company or institution.
• AS number and name: The Autonomous System Number — a group of IP networks under single administrative control, which helps explain how traffic routes across the internet.
Privacy and security indicators
These are the patterns an IP lookup can reveal in general. The Privacy info tab on this page tests one of them: it reads the ISP, organization and AS name as a single piece of text and reports the first hosting or datacenter keyword it finds there. Nothing else in the list below is checked.
A residential or business ISP, no proxy or VPN indicators, and consistent geographic data.
A VPN provider listed as the ISP, a hosting or datacenter organization, or proxy service indicators.
Tor exit node indicators, known anonymization services, or inconsistent and masked location data. Confirming these needs a live Tor exit list or a threat feed, which this page does not query.
What This Tool Cannot Tell You
Limits of an IP lookup
• Who is behind the address: A lookup shows a coarse location and a network owner. It does not show a name or a street address.
• Which single device or person used it: Many users can share one public address, for example behind carrier-grade NAT. RFC 6598 notes that geolocation systems tend to place the carrier's equipment, not the end host.
• Whether a VPN, proxy or Tor is in use: The Privacy info tab only scans names for hosting keywords. It cannot confirm or rule out any of them.
• Whether the address is safe or abusive: There is no reputation or blocklist check here, so a clean-looking result is not a clean bill of health.
• Whether the record is current: Addresses get reassigned and databases lag behind. A result is a snapshot from one source.
What Other Tools Work With This One?
Sources and Further Reading
The accuracy figures, address ranges and definitions on this page come from these references. Each link was opened and checked on October 2, 2026.
• MaxMind — Understanding IP geolocation accuracy: Accuracy by country, region and city, and why mobile networks, VPNs and corporate networks lower it.
• RFC 1930 — Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System: The definition of an AS and its single routing policy. It has since been updated by RFC 6996 and RFC 7300, which cover private-use and reserved AS numbers.
• RFC 5737 — IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation: The source for 192.0.2.0/24, 198.51.100.0/24 and 203.0.113.0/24. It points to RFC 3849 for the IPv6 documentation prefix 2001:db8::/32.
• RFC 6598 — IANA-Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space: The 100.64.0.0/10 block used for carrier-grade NAT, including how it affects geolocation.
Frequently Asked Questions
How the IP Lookup Works
What it measures: Network and approximate location details for an address you enter: the network operator, city, country and approximate coordinates.
What it is based on: IP geolocation and network registry data, which link blocks of addresses to organizations and places. MaxMind reports country-level accuracy above 99%, but typical city-level accuracy of only 20% to 75%.
Limits of the result: The location is an estimate of where the network serves, often a provider's hub rather than a home or device. APNIC found that mergers and acquisitions between companies are a common cause of wrong locations. Mobile and VPN addresses can point to another city or country entirely.
Sources: MaxMind accuracy guide · APNIC geolocation study · RFC 791 (IPv4) · RFC 8200 (IPv6)
Last reviewed October 2026 · Editorial Policy · How our tools work
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