What is my IP Address
Display IP address:
54.167.52.238
More detailed host address:
ec2-54-167-52-238.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Display browser info:
claudebot
Where you came from (if you clicked on a link to get here:
Page was directly requested
Can someone find out who I am?
Possibly, but most likely not without a subpoena. In most cases all that
can be easily determined is who the person's ISP is and possibly the state
and city the reside in.
How can someone find out who I am?
A little background first.
IP address allocation is handled by The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
(IANA). IANA in turn, delegate authority to Regional Internet Registries
(RIRs). The RIRs, in turn, following their own regional policies, further
delegate blocks of IP addresses to their customers, which include Internet
Service Providers (ISPs) and end-user organizations.
Each of the RIRs handle a specific geographic area:
* ARIN (North America and portions of the Caribbean)
* AfriNIC (Africa)
* APNIC (Asia and the Pacific region)
* LACNIC (Latin America and portions of the Caribbean)
* RIPE (Europe, Middle East, Central Asia)
Each of these organizations allow lookups to be to that data. Different
ISP's segment their blocks of IP addresses by region and you can see that
in the lookup. The lookup provides the name and address of the organization
the block of IP addresses was allocated to. The ISP's can name these blocks
if they choose. The naming often indicates a geographic location, for
example, IRV-CA, aka Irvine, California.
Here are links to the URLs where you can lookup an IP address. Be aware
that if you lookup an Asian allocated IP address in a different region's
RIR it will provide a link to the appropriate RIR.
In general, I start by looking up an IP address with ARIN seeing what
geographic location information I can learn from the results.
From there I do an reverse DNS (rDNS) lookup to see what hostname the
ISP provides. A hostname is something like www.example.com, or can be
more specific to include regional information. By visiting this page you
can see your own rDNS/hostname. (We'll add the functionality to lookup
other IP addresses soon.) This, again, can provide some additional geogrphic
location information.
From there I do a traceroute which displays the hostnames many of the
machines in between two points on the internet. (I'm making this *really*
none technical here...) Sometimes the rDNS/hostname of a specific IP address
will not reveal any location but the rDNS/hostname of the machine next
along the path will reveal some.
That's about all the information that can be obtained without a subpoena.
In many cases people reveal small amounts of personal information about
themselves on forums, chat rooms, blogs, etc that can be used to build
a profile of who you might be.
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