IP Info Lookup

IP geolocation is an approximation, not a street-level fix. The coordinates, city, and postal code come from databases that map an address block to the registered location of the ISP or its nearest point of presence, so the result usually lands within the right country and region but can be off by many miles inside it. It cannot reveal a person's name or exact home address, and mobile, satellite, or VPN connections often resolve to the carrier's hub rather than where the user sits. Treat the latitude and longitude shown here as a rough centroid, and the OpenStreetMap link as a general area. For the IP you enter, this tool reports the country, region, city, and coordinates the lookup service returns, clearly labelled as an approximate location so you read it with the right expectations.

An ASN, or Autonomous System Number, is the unique identifier for a network that announces a block of IP addresses to the rest of the internet through BGP routing. Where the ISP or organization name tells you who operates an address in plain English, the ASN pins down the exact routing entity behind it, which is far more reliable for filtering because one company can use several names but its traffic still rides a handful of ASNs. Security teams use the ASN to block or rate-limit an entire abusive network instead of chasing individual addresses, and to confirm whether an address belongs to a residential ISP or a hosting provider. This tool surfaces both the ISP/organization and its ASN for any public address you look up, so you can copy the network identifier straight into a firewall rule or abuse report.

Addresses such as 192.168.1.1, 10.0.0.5, or anything in 172.16.0.0/12 are reserved by RFC 1918 for use inside local networks and are never routed across the public internet, so no geolocation database holds a location for them. The same is true for loopback addresses like 127.0.0.1 and ::1, which always point back at the machine making the request. Because countless home and office networks reuse the identical private ranges, an address like 192.168.1.1 could be a router in millions of buildings at once, making any single location meaningless. This tool recognises these ranges locally and labels them Private or Loopback without sending a network request, while still showing the structural details such as IP version and class. Enter a public, routable address to see full geolocation, ISP, and timezone data.

IPv4 is the original 32-bit addressing scheme written as four dotted numbers like 8.8.8.8, giving about 4.3 billion possible addresses, a pool that has effectively run out. IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses written in hexadecimal groups separated by colons, such as 2001:4860:4860::8888, expanding the space to an astronomically large number so every device can have its own globally unique address without sharing. IPv6 also drops the legacy concept of address classes and the need for widespread network address translation. Practically, both still carry the same kind of traffic and both can be geolocated, but the notation and underlying math differ. This tool auto-detects which version you enter, shows the version and, for IPv4, the legacy class plus the binary and decimal forms of the address, so you can inspect either format and see exactly how it is structured.

Reliable VPN, proxy, Tor, and datacenter detection depends on commercial threat-intelligence feeds that are constantly updated with the address ranges those services use, which a free lookup does not have access to. Because of that, this tool is deliberately honest: the Privacy and Security panel is shown for context but reports basic geolocation only and does not claim a confident VPN verdict, so you are never misled by a guess. A useful manual signal is the ISP or ASN, since many VPN and hosting addresses resolve to well-known datacenter networks rather than residential ISPs, which can hint at a non-residential connection. For a definitive answer you would pair this with a paid service such as a commercial IP intelligence database. Use the lookup to gather the location, ISP, and ASN, then judge the address with that context in hand.