🌐 My IP Address

This is the IP address websites see when you connect — plus where it says you are and who your provider is

Your IP Address
216.73.216.39
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Direct Connection
No VPN or proxy detected. You appear to be connecting directly from your ISP.
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Columbus, United States

Ohio

🌍 Approximate Location

Country: United States
Region: Ohio
City: Columbus
Postal Code: 43215

🏢 Network Information

ISP: Amazon.com, Inc.
Organization: Amazon.com, Inc.
ASN: AS16509
Coordinates: 39.96138, -82.997749

This is where your internet provider connects you — not your home. It is usually the right region, but often a different part of it, and on a mobile network it can be far off.

View larger map — © OpenStreetMap contributors

What Is My IP Address?

Your IP address is the number the internet uses to send things back to you. Ask for a page and it has to know where to deliver it — that address is the return label. It is shown at the top of this page, along with everything that can be worked out from it: the country, region and city it points to, the internet provider it belongs to, and whether it looks like a VPN or proxy. Nothing to install and no sign-up. It is all read the moment the page loads.

What You Can See Here

  • Public IP address – the IPv4 or IPv6 address every site you visit sees
  • Approximate location – country, region, city and postcode area, with a map
  • Internet provider – the ISP or organisation the address is registered to, with its network number
  • VPN or proxy check – whether the address looks like it belongs to a VPN, a hosting company or the Tor network

Can Someone Find My Home Address From My IP?

No — and the page above is the proof. Look at the city it names. For most people it is not where they live; it is wherever their provider routes their traffic through, which can be a different suburb or a different city altogether. On a mobile network it is often nowhere near.

What an IP actually reveals is the provider it was issued to, and roughly the area that provider serves. Only your ISP holds the record of which customer had which address at which moment, and they hand that over to a court order, not to a website. So a site can tell what country you are in and which company connects you. It cannot get your street, your name or your door number from the address alone.

That said, it is not nothing. Your IP is enough to decide which country's version of a site you see, to block you from something, to rate-limit you, and to tie your visits together across pages. That is the real reason people use a VPN — not to become invisible, but to swap that return label for somebody else's.

Am I Using a VPN? How the Check Works

Every block of IP addresses is registered to an organisation, and that registration is public. A home connection traces back to a consumer provider — a telecoms company, a cable operator. A VPN's addresses trace back to a hosting company or a datacentre, because that is where VPN servers live. This page reads the name attached to your address and tells you which it looks like.

Treat it as a strong hint rather than a verdict. It is a good way to confirm your VPN is actually on before you rely on it, and a good way to notice that it has quietly dropped. It can also flag a false positive — some business and mobile connections are routed through datacentre ranges without any VPN involved.

When You Might Need This

  • Checking your VPN is really on before doing something you wanted it on for
  • Giving your IP to an administrator so they can add it to an allow list
  • Working out why a site says a service is not available in your country
  • Confirming a new router or connection is giving you the address you expect
  • Seeing what a website learns about you before you have typed anything
  • Checking whether your connection has moved to IPv6
  • Sending your IP to support when they ask for it during a fault
  • Settling the question of whether your IP really shows where you live

Frequently Asked Questions

You already have — it is at the top of this page. There is nothing to press: your browser had to hand the address over to request the page at all, so it is simply read back to you. If you want it from your own machine instead, Windows has ipconfig and macOS and Linux have ifconfig or ip addr at the command line — but note that those show your private address on your own network, not the public one the internet sees. The two are different, which is the next question.

The public IP shown here is the address the internet sees for your whole network. A private IP (like 192.168.x.x) is used inside your home or office network and isn't visible to websites.

IP-based location is approximate — it's derived from your ISP's records, not GPS. It's usually accurate to the city or region, but can be off, especially on mobile networks or VPNs.

No — this tool only shows your current IP and network info. To change or hide your IP you'd use a VPN or proxy.

No. An IP address traces to the provider that issued it and roughly the area that provider covers — which is why the city shown above is often not the one you are sitting in. Only your ISP knows which customer held an address at a given moment, and that record goes to a court order, not to a website. What a site can tell is your country, your provider, and that your visits belong together. Not your street, your name or your door number.

Because most home connections get a dynamic address: your provider lends you one from a pool and takes it back when the lease runs out, when the router restarts, or when you move between mobile masts. A static address stays put, but providers usually charge for one and mainly sell them to businesses running a server. Nothing is wrong if the number here differs from last week — that is the normal arrangement working as designed.

Length, essentially. IPv4 is the familiar short form, four numbers with dots — 203.0.113.42 — and there are about four billion of them, which the world ran out of. IPv6 is the replacement, written as longer groups separated by colons — 2001:0db8:85a3::8a2e:0370:7334 — with more addresses than anyone will plausibly need. Your connection may use either, and often both at once — you can tell which you arrived on by glancing at the address above: dots mean IPv4, colons mean IPv6. Nothing you do differs between them; it only decides how the number looks.

Related Tools

  • GPS Coordinates – where you actually are, read from your device rather than guessed from your IP