What is my IP
Here’s the address our server received when you opened this page, along with the network it belongs to and the name attached to it. Every site you visit gets the same information.
The address you are browsing from
216.73.217.0Amazon.com, Inc.Columbus, Ohio, United States
IPv4
- Internet provider
- Amazon.com, Inc. AS16509
- Country of the address block
- United States
- Address block
216.73.216.0/22- Reverse name
- None
This is the address your connection presented when it requested this page. Every website you open receives the same thing. We do not store it. Our server answers over IPv4 only, so an IPv6 address on the same connection will not show up here.
This product includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from maxmind.com, looked up on our server.
An address for the reply
If you send a letter and want an answer, you write a return address on the envelope. Internet traffic works the same way. Every request your browser sends carries the number the answer has to go back to, and that number is your public IP address. A site can’t send you a page without it.
The address usually belongs to your router, not to your laptop or phone. Inside your home or office, each device has a private address such as 192.168.1.24 or 10.0.0.5. The router swaps it for the single public address on the way out, so everyone on the same Wi-Fi shows up with the same number. Mobile carriers often go a step further and put thousands of customers behind one public address.
Where each line of the result comes from
You didn’t type any of this, and we didn’t guess it from your browser. Our server reads the source address of your connection, then looks it up in public directories.
| Line | Source | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| The address, tagged IPv4 or IPv6 | The connection itself | The number to give a technician or to put in a firewall rule. |
| Internet provider and AS number | A routing registry queried over DNS | The organization that announces this address to the rest of the internet. Each such network has an “autonomous system” number, such as AS7922 for Comcast or AS3320 for Deutsche Telekom. |
| Address block | The same registry | The range your address is part of, written like 203.0.113.0/24. The number after the slash says how many leading bits are fixed, so a smaller number means a bigger range. |
| Country of the address block | The same registry | Where the block is registered. That’s an administrative fact about the range, and it isn’t always where you’re sitting. |
| Reverse name | A PTR record in DNS | A hostname the provider attached to the address, for example host-203-0-113-7.example.net. Many home connections have one, and some have none. |
| City and region | A geolocation database stored on our server | An estimate. The line is left out when the database has no entry for your address. |
If the page reports a private address, the request never crossed the public internet. That normally means you’re looking at a copy of the site on a local network.
What an address gives away, and what it doesn’t
An IP address identifies a connection, not a person. From it, any site can work out your provider with near certainty, your country most of the time, and your city a lot less reliably. Location databases are built from registry data and measurements, and they place many addresses in the nearest large town or at the provider’s regional hub. Being shown a city 100 km away is common.
Your name, your street and your browsing history aren’t in the address. The link between an address and a subscriber only exists in your provider’s records. Sites recognize returning visitors through cookies and logins far more often than through the address, which is shared between people and changes over time.
With a VPN or proxy switched on, this page shows the address of that service instead of your own. To check that your browser isn’t giving away the original one through another channel, run the WebRTC leak test.
Putting the address to work
- Allowing your office through a firewall
- Admin panels, databases and SSH servers can be restricted to a list of addresses. Copy the address shown here into the rule. Check first that your connection has a fixed (static) address, because a dynamic one will lock you out the day it changes.
- Remote support
- A technician who needs to reach your network, or to find your visits in a server log, will ask for this number.
- Mail that keeps getting refused
- If you run a mail server on this connection, the address may be on a spam blocklist because of whoever had it before you. The blocklist lookup button checks IPv4 addresses.
- Scripts
- Add
?text=1to the address of this page and it returns the IP alone as plain text. That’s handy withcurlin a dynamic DNS or monitoring script.
Keep one limit in mind. The page reports the one connection that fetched it, and our server only answers over IPv4. If your line also has an IPv6 address, you won’t see it here.
Questions people ask
Why does my IP address keep changing?
Most home and mobile connections get a dynamic address, lent for a limited time. A router restart, a provider maintenance window or just the end of the lease can bring a new one. A static address is usually a paid option on business plans.
Can someone find my home address from my IP address?
No. Public databases stop at the provider and an approximate area. Only the provider can match an address and a time to a subscriber, and it normally does so only when a court or the police require it.
Why does my IP show the wrong city?
Geolocation is an estimate. Databases often place an address where the provider’s equipment or registration is, which may be another city. Mobile connections and newly reassigned blocks are the least accurate.
What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?
IPv4 addresses are four numbers such as 198.51.100.24. There are about 4.3 billion of them and they ran out years ago. IPv6 addresses are longer, written in hexadecimal with colons, such as 2001:db8::1. Many connections have both, and the browser uses whichever the site supports.
How do I hide my IP address?
Send your traffic through something else, such as a VPN, a proxy or the Tor network. Sites then see the address of that intermediary. The intermediary still sees yours, though, so you haven’t stopped trusting someone. You’ve picked a different someone.
Is my public IP the same as the one in my computer’s network settings?
Usually not. Your device’s settings show its private address on the local network, often starting with 192.168 or 10. The public address belongs to the router, and it’s the only one websites see.