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What Is My IP

Detects your public IPv4 / IPv6 address along with geolocation, ISP, organization, and ASN. No input required — your IP is shown the moment the page loads.

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What is What Is My IP?

Your public IP address is the identifier your router presents to the rest of the internet. Every site you visit, every server you connect to, sees this address — not the private 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x address assigned to your laptop or phone on your home network.

This page detects that public-facing address the moment it loads, for both IPv4 and IPv6 if your connection supports both, and pairs it with geolocation (country, region, city), your Internet Service Provider, the organization the address is registered to, and its Autonomous System Number (ASN).

How to use the What Is My IP tool

  1. 1 Load this page — no input is required, your IP address and details appear automatically.
  2. 2 Check whether an IPv6 address is shown alongside your IPv4 address; many home ISPs now dual-stack both.
  3. 3 Compare the result before and after connecting to a VPN or proxy to confirm it actually changed your visible address.
  4. 4 Use the ISP and location fields to confirm you are exiting through the network or region you expect.

When you need this tool

  • Verifying a VPN, proxy or Tor connection is actually masking your real address before doing anything sensitive.
  • Confirming your home router reconnected with a new IP after an ISP outage or router reboot.
  • Grabbing your current IP to whitelist it on a firewall, cPanel, database, or remote-access rule.
  • Checking whether your connection is IPv6-capable, which matters for testing modern apps and CDNs.
  • Spotting geolocation mismatches that explain why a site is showing you the wrong region, currency or language.

How it works

When your browser requests this page, our server reads the IP address the connection arrived from (the address your router or ISP is presenting publicly) and looks it up against MaxMind's GeoLite2 database for location, ISP and ASN data. Nothing is installed and nothing is sent anywhere else — the lookup runs server-side and the result is rendered directly into the page.

Frequently asked questions

Why is this different from the IP address shown in my router settings?

Your router settings usually show either its WAN IP (which can match this, unless you're behind ISP-level NAT) or the private LAN IP it hands out to your devices (192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x). This tool shows the address your connection presents to the public internet, which is what every website and server actually sees.

Why does my IP address change?

Most home and mobile connections use dynamic IPs — your ISP can reassign a new address whenever your router reconnects, after a modem reboot, or periodically via DHCP lease renewal. Static IPs, common on business connections, stay fixed until deliberately changed.

Is my exact location visible from my IP address?

No. IP geolocation is accurate to city or region level at best — it's derived from ISP network registration data, not GPS. It will not reveal your street address, but it can reveal your city, ISP and sometimes your approximate neighborhood.

Why do I see an IPv6 address but my friend doesn't?

IPv6 adoption depends on your ISP and router configuration. Many networks are already dual-stack (both IPv4 and IPv6), while others are IPv4-only. Neither is wrong — IPv6 is simply the newer protocol with a much larger address space.