IP Address Lookup — See Your Public IP or Look Up Another Address
See your public IP address instantly below, or look up the approximate network location and ISP for any other IPv4 or IPv6 address.
Your Public IP
Read directly from your connection to Utilao — no geolocation provider is involved in this card.
216.73.216.75
Look Up Another IP
Check the approximate location, ISP, and timezone for any IPv4 or IPv6 address.
Leave it blank and click "Look Up" to check your own IP, or .
Before you click "Look Up": a detailed lookup sends the address above (your own, auto-detected, if you leave it blank) to ipapi.co, a third-party geolocation API, so it can return country/region/city/ISP data — Utilao's own servers never see or store it. Nothing is sent until you click the button — no lookup ever runs automatically on page load. See Privacy for details.
Maintained and tested by Ivan Daniel · Methodology
Runs in your browser — No file upload — your public IP is read from your connection; a detailed lookup queries ipapi.co only after you click "Look Up" · Output: Generated or validated output, shown on the page
Looking up an IP sends it to ipapi.co, a third-party geolocation service — only when you click "Look Up," never automatically on page load. See Privacy for details.
An IP address lookup shows the approximate network location, ISP, and other technical details associated with an IP address. It's useful for network administrators, developers debugging traffic sources, and anyone who wants to understand where a connection is coming from — but it identifies a network, not a person or a home address.
How This Tool Works
- Your own public IP appears automatically in the card above, read from your connection to Utilao — nothing is sent to any third party for this.
- To check a different address (or get more detail than country), enter it under "Look Up Another IP," or leave the field blank to look up your own.
- Click "Look Up." Nothing is sent anywhere until you do — see the disclosure next to the button for exactly what's sent and to whom.
IPv4 vs. IPv6
IPv4 addresses (e.g. 8.8.8.8) use four numbers from 0–255 separated by dots. IPv6 addresses (e.g. 2606:4700:4700::1111) are longer, written as up to eight groups of hexadecimal digits separated by colons, and are increasingly common as the internet runs out of IPv4 space. This tool accepts either format, including compressed IPv6 notation (the :: shorthand for a run of zero groups).
What Utilao Shows vs. What ipapi.co Shows
| Data Point | Source | When It's Shown |
|---|---|---|
| Your public IP + IP version | Your connection to Utilao | Immediately, on page load — no external request |
| Your country (approximate) | Cloudflare's edge network | Immediately, when reliably available |
| Country / region / city / ISP / timezone / coordinates for any address | ipapi.co (third party) | Only after you click "Look Up" |
Frequently Asked Questions
What is my public IP address?
Your public IP address is the address your device or network presents to the internet. It's shown automatically in the "Your Public IP" card at the top of this page as soon as it loads, read directly from your connection to Utilao — no third-party lookup is needed for that.
Is IP geolocation exact?
No. IP geolocation is approximate — typically accurate to a country or region, and often but not always to a city. It cannot pinpoint an exact street address or a specific device, and should be treated as a general indicator rather than a precise location.
Does Utilao automatically send my IP to a third party?
No. The "Your Public IP" card is rendered from your connection to Utilao and involves no external request. A detailed lookup only happens after you click "Look Up," and only the address in the input field at that moment is sent — directly from your browser — to ipapi.co, a third-party geolocation API.
Can I look up IPv6 addresses?
Yes. The lookup accepts both IPv4 addresses (e.g. 8.8.8.8) and IPv6 addresses (e.g. 2606:4700:4700::1111), including compressed IPv6 notation.
Why does my location look wrong?
IP geolocation databases map IP address ranges to a likely location using ISP registration data, which doesn't always match where a device physically is. Mobile networks, corporate networks, VPNs, and proxies can all make an IP appear to be located somewhere else — often a different city or even country.
Does a VPN change the result?
Yes. A VPN or proxy replaces your real IP address with one from the VPN provider's network, so any lookup — including this one — shows the VPN server's location and ISP instead of your own.