What is my IP address?
The address the internet sees when you connect, the network that holds it, and what the routing table and the geolocation databases currently say about it.
Your IPv4 address
216.73.217.11
IPv6 · not detected on this connection
- Network
- Amazon.com, Inc.
- AS number
- AS16509 WHOIS →
- Announced as
- 216.73.216.0/22
- Reverse DNS
- No PTR record
Geolocation · 1 of 4 sources
Columbus, Ohio, US
- Source
- ipinfo.io
- Coordinates
- 39.9612,-82.9988
One provider's opinion. The others frequently disagree, and none of them is authoritative. These are commercial databases making an educated guess.
What this page is actually showing
Your IP address is the address your traffic appears to come from. If you are behind a home or office router, every device on that network shares it, because the router translates between one public address and the private addresses inside. If you are on a VPN, this is the exit node's address instead of your own connection's, which is rather the point of a VPN.
Why the location is often wrong
Nothing in the internet's design records where an address physically is. Geolocation databases infer it, from registry records, from what networks publish about themselves, from latency measurements and from commercial feeds. A block that moved between owners or regions can carry a stale location for months, and different providers correct at different speeds.
The registry record below the location is a different kind of fact: it is who the address is registered to, which the registry itself asserts. Those two lines are frequently in disagreement, and only one of them is authoritative.
Why the AS number matters more than the address
The AS number identifies the network announcing your address to the rest of the internet. It is the unit routing actually works in, and it is what a filter, a peering policy or a reputation system will usually key on. Look one up →
Common questions
Is my IP address public information?
Every server you connect to sees it. It has to, in order to send anything back. What it does not reveal on its own is who you are. It identifies the network, and the registry record names the organization holding the block, not the person using it.
Why does my IP address change?
Most consumer connections are assigned an address from a pool for a period and renumbered afterwards. A fixed address is normally something you either pay your provider for, or hold yourself as registered space.
How do I get an IP address that does not change?
Either your provider assigns you a static one, or you hold your own space. Some organizations need their addresses to stay put even when they change provider, because those addresses sit in other people's allow lists or carry years of mail reputation. Those organizations hold their own. How that works →