Your IP address
Identifies your connection. Sites use it to recognize you across visits, limit what you can see and block access.
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What is my IP address?
This is the address every website and app sees when you go online, and the place it points to.
Your public IP address
The check isn't saved. IP Geolocation by DB-IP
Checking your IP address.
Your digital footprint
What every website can see
Your IP address is only the start. Here is what your connection and your browser tell every site you visit, without asking.
Your area
Your IP address points to a city or region. That's how sites know where you are and change prices or content.
Your provider
The company behind your connection is public. Your provider itself can see which sites you connect to.
Your device
Your browser, system, language, time zone and screen size come with every request.
IP lookup
Look up any IP address
Find the country, city and network of any public IPv4 or IPv6 address.
Privacy
How to hide your IP address
Three common ways, and what each one changes.
Use a VPN
Websites see the VPN server's address, and everything between your device and the server is encrypted, so your Wi-Fi and your provider can't read it. Works for every app, not just the browser.
How CosmoVPN does it →Use a proxy
Changes the address websites see, usually for the browser only. Most proxies don't encrypt your traffic, and free ones may log it.
Use Tor
Sends your traffic through three volunteer relays. Very private, but slow, often blocked, and only for the Tor Browser by default.
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IP address questions
An IP address is the number that identifies your connection on the internet, like a return address on a letter. Every website, app and online service you use sees it, because it needs it to send data back to you. At home it usually belongs to your router, so all devices on your Wi-Fi share it; on mobile data it belongs to your phone operator.
An IP address points to your internet provider and an approximate area, usually a city or region, not your street or your name. Your internet provider, however, knows which customer used an address at a given time and can be asked for it. Websites also use your IP address to recognize you across visits and to show region-based content.
Use a VPN. With CosmoVPN connected, websites and apps see the address of our server instead of yours, and your traffic is encrypted between your device and the server, so your network and internet provider cannot read it. Proxies and Tor also hide your address; a VPN covers every app on the device and is usually faster.
IP locations come from databases that map address ranges to places. They are approximate: mobile operators and some providers route many customers through a few cities, and a provider can move address ranges between regions before the databases catch up. With a VPN connected, you see the location of the VPN server.
IPv4 addresses look like 203.0.113.42 and there are only about 4 billion of them, so many networks share them. IPv6 addresses are longer (like 2001:db8::1) and there are enough for every device. Your connection can have both; this page shows the one your browser used to reach our server.
No. The check looks up your address in an IP location database on our server and sends the answer straight back to your browser. We don't save the check or its result; to prevent abuse, our server only counts the checks from each address in memory, for up to a day.