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What Is My IP Address?

See the public IP address and approximate location your connection reveals to every website you visit, detected in real time with no signup.

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Your public IP address

216.73.217.128IPv4

deviceDatabay edgeinternet
Continent
North America
Country
United States
Region
Ohio
City
Columbus
Coordinates
39.96118, -82.99879
Timezone
America/New_York
Same data as JSON:GET /what-is-my-ip/json
  • Liveread from your connection
  • No signupand no API key
  • JSONmachine endpoint

Observed server-side from your connection's edge headers, not from browser fingerprinting.

Detected from your live connectionNo signup or API keyFree /what-is-my-ip/json endpointChange it with 34M+ residential IPs
IP exposure

What Your IP Address Reveals

Every website you visit can see your IP address and use it to infer information about you.

Geographic Location

Your IP reveals your approximate location to city level: your country, region, and often your city. It cannot pinpoint your exact street address, but it narrows you down considerably.

Internet Service Provider

Your ISP is identifiable from your IP's registered WHOIS data. This reveals whether you use a residential connection, a mobile carrier, or a datacenter or VPS network.

Online Privacy and Tracking

Websites and analytics services can record an IP and combine it with cookies, account data, and browser signals. A proxy changes the network address normally seen by the destination, but it does not erase identity, cookies, fingerprinting, account history, or cross-site tracking.

Connection Type

Address ranges may be classified as residential, mobile, datacenter, or hosting. Destinations can use that estimate alongside address history, protocol, browser, account, rate, and behavior; no class has a universal trust score.

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Masking your IP

How a Proxy Hides Your IP Address

A proxy server acts as an intermediary between you and the websites you visit. When you route traffic through a proxy, the destination site sees the proxy's IP address instead of yours.

  1. Your device connects to the proxy. The request is sent to the proxy server instead of the target website.

  2. The proxy forwards the request. It reaches the target website from the proxy's own IP.

  3. The response travels back. The website responds to the proxy, which passes the data back to you.

  4. The destination normally observes the proxy exit address. A correctly configured proxy normally causes the destination to receive the proxy's public IP at the network layer. Forwarded headers, DNS requests, browser features, or traffic outside the proxy path can still expose client information.

  • A correctly configured proxy normally causes the destination to observe the proxy exit IP
  • Forwarded headers, DNS requests, browser features, or traffic outside the proxy can expose client information
  • Accounts, cookies, fingerprints, behavior, and logs can still correlate activity
  • Rotation changes one network identifier; it does not guarantee a fresh or different IP or prevent profiling
  • Request one supported country target and verify the observed exit
Diagram of a request flowing from your device through a proxy server to the target website, hiding your IP address
The destination normally sees the proxy exit IP at the network layer. Proxy-added headers, browser leaks, and other signals can still expose or correlate client information.

Databay's shared rotating pools may select an available exit for a new proxy connection, while a reused connection can retain one. Rotation changes one network identifier; it does not guarantee a fresh or different IP, and account, cookie, fingerprint, behavior, and log correlation can still support profiling.

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IP address basics

IPv4, IPv6, Public and Private

Not all IP addresses work the same way. These are the distinctions that matter most when you read the result above.

IPv4

192.0.2.1

The original 32-bit format, written as four numbers from 0 to 255. Its pool of about 4.3 billion addresses is nearly exhausted, so networks increasingly share and reuse them.

IPv6

2001:db8::1

A newer 128-bit format with a vastly larger address space. Adoption keeps growing, though most connections still default to IPv4 today.

Public and private

192.168.x.x

A public IP is assigned by your ISP and is visible to every site you reach. A private IP works only inside your local network and never appears on the open internet.

Dynamic and static

reassigned on reconnect

Most home connections use dynamic IPs that your ISP reassigns periodically or on reconnect. A static IP stays fixed but usually costs extra.

Developers

Check Your IP from the Command Line

The same lookup is available as a machine-readable JSON endpoint: free, no API key, no signup. Point curl, a script, or a monitoring job at it to log the egress IP and the geo data resolved for the request.

  • No API key and no signup
  • Returns IP, country, city, region, coordinates and timezone
  • Scriptable for monitoring, logging and CI jobs

Open /what-is-my-ip/json

bash
$ curl https://databay.com/what-is-my-ip/json
{
  "UserIpAddress": "203.0.113.42",
  "UserAgent":     "curl/8.7.1",
  "IPCity":        "San Francisco",
  "IPCountry":     "US",
  "IPContinent":   "NA",
  "IPLongitude":   "-122.41940",
  "IPLatitude":    "37.77490",
  "Region":        "California",
  "RegionCode":    "CA",
  "MetroCode":     "807",
  "PostalCode":    "94103",
  "TimeZone":      "America/Los_Angeles"
}
Use cases

Why Use a Proxy Service?

Beyond hiding your IP, proxies do three production jobs: privacy, geo-specific viewing, and scaled data collection.

Change the Network Address Sites See

For traffic routed correctly through a proxy, a destination normally observes the proxy exit IP. Verify proxy and DNS configuration; forwarded headers, browser leaks, accounts, cookies, fingerprints, behavior, and logs can still expose or correlate activity.

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See Geo-Specific Content

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Scale Web Scraping

Spread large data collection jobs across millions of rotating IPs so no single address carries the whole workload. Built for public-data crawls.

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Hide your IP

Hide Your IP Address with Databay

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Residential Proxies

34M+ ISP-origin IPs with product-specific geo controls. A proxy changes the network address a site sees; it does not guarantee anonymity.

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Datacenter Proxies

80K+ server-hosted IPs with country and continent controls. Benchmark the authorized route, destination, and load.

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Mobile Proxies

800K+ genuine 5G and 4G carrier IPs across 155+ countries, for work that needs a real carrier network behind the address.

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FAQ

Common IP Address Questions

What is an IP address?
An IP address identifies a network interface or connection so internet traffic can be routed. Public addresses may be shared through NAT or reassigned, and they can suggest a network provider and approximate region without identifying an exact person or street address.
What is my IP address?
Your public IP address is shown at the top of this page, detected from your current connection. It is the address websites and services see when you connect to them.
What is the difference between a public and private IP?
A public IP is assigned by your ISP and is visible to the internet. A private IP is used inside your local network (home or office) and is not routable on the public internet.
Does my IP address reveal my exact location?
No. IP geolocation is approximate, usually accurate to your city or region, not your street address. It reflects where your ISP routes your connection, which can differ from your physical location.
What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?
IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses, such as 192.0.2.1, and its freely available global address pool has been exhausted. IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses and provides a far larger pool. Many networks run both protocols, while NAT and address sharing extend IPv4 use.
How can I change the public IP a website sees?
A trusted proxy or VPN can route traffic through another public address. This changes one network signal, not every identity or location signal, and the operator may be able to observe connection metadata. Review the provider’s privacy and security terms before sending sensitive traffic.
Why does my IP address change?
Most home connections use dynamic IPs that your ISP reassigns periodically or on reconnect. Mobile networks and CGNAT also rotate addresses. A static IP stays fixed but usually costs extra.
Is there a free IP lookup API?
Yes. Append /json to this page (/what-is-my-ip/json) to get your connection details as JSON (IP, country, city, region, coordinates and timezone) with no signup.
Can websites track me by IP address?
Websites can log your IP and infer your approximate location and network. Combined with cookies and browser fingerprinting, it contributes to tracking. Using a proxy or VPN masks your real IP from the sites you visit.

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