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My IP Score
Free IP Trust Score Checker
See what your IP address says about you — your location, your ISP, and whether sites treat your connection as trustworthy or risky.
Every time you go online, your device is handed a number called an IP address. It works like a return address: it tells every server you contact where to send the answer back. Ask what is my IP address and the honest answer has two halves, because the number itself is only the beginning of what your connection reveals.
The scan above starts the moment this page loads. It reads your public address, resolves it to a network and a location, then runs a set of checks inside your own browser for the leaks that give away a real location even behind a VPN. Everything it finds is shown with its source, and anything it cannot determine says so rather than guessing.
What Is My IP Address?
Your IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique number that your Internet Service Provider gives to your device. Think of it like a phone number for your computer or mobile. Without this internet protocol address, you cannot browse websites, send emails, or watch videos online.
People come looking for this number for very different reasons. Some are confirming a VPN is actually routing their traffic. Some need the address for a firewall rule or a whitelist at work. Some have been blocked by a site and want to know why. The number is the same in every case; what differs is which of the details below actually matters to you.
Most pages of this kind stop at the number and the city. This one continues into the parts that decide how sites treat you: which network announces your address, whether that network is consumer broadband or a data center, and whether your browser is quietly leaking something your VPN was supposed to hide.
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Cybersecurity Expert
"Understanding your digital footprint starts with knowing your IP. Our tool helps you see your online identity clearly."
IP Location: Where Is My IP Located?
Every address has a rough geographic location attached to it, but not in the way most people assume. Nothing in the number itself encodes a place. The location comes from registry records showing which blocks a provider assigned to which region, cross-checked against traceroute measurements and latency data collected over years. Our geolocation lookup shows the record behind the estimate.
How IP Geolocation Works
IP geolocation works by matching your address against those registry records and against traceroute data collected over time. The result is usually accurate to a city or a metropolitan area, and frequently off by 50 to 100 miles. It is an estimate built from routing, not a position read from a device.
Your provider hands you an address from a block it holds, and that block is registered wherever the provider chose to register it. A small town is served from equipment in the nearest city, so that is the city databases report. On mobile networks the gap widens, because carrier-grade NAT puts thousands of subscribers behind a handful of shared addresses. Most home connections also change address periodically, since DHCP leases expire; a static IP that never moves is normally a paid business option.
✓ What IP Location Shows:
Your city, country, timezone, ISP name, network information, and map position. This helps websites give you local content.
✗ What IP Location Cannot Show:
Your exact street address, your name, or phone number. Only your ISP knows your real home address.
Our Forensic Intelligence Scan
Most pages of this kind report the address and the city and stop. This scan continues into the routing layer and the browser layer: which autonomous system announces your address over BGP, which subnet it sits in, what your reverse DNS says, and what your own browser gives away through WebRTC, fonts and canvas rendering.
Network Analysis
We detect your public ip address, check both IPv4 address and IPv6 address, find your external ip address, show isp information, and reveal your network address completely.
Check ASN Details →Location Mapping
Get full IP geolocation details including country, city, postal code, time zone, and live IP coordinates displayed on an interactive map.
city and ISP lookupSecurity & Trust
We analyze your IP's trust score, VPN or proxy activity, and blacklist status against the public DNSBL and reputation feeds our blacklist tool queries.
Check IP Fraud Score →Privacy Check
Test your IP privacy with checks for WebRTC leaks, DNS leaks, IPv6 leaks, and time zone mismatches to help protect your online presence.
Run a Full Leak Audit →Browser Fingerprint
Canvas signature, GPU detection, screen resolution, fonts list, and hardware profiling to show your network identity and uniqueness online.
Canvas Fingerprint →Device Detection
Check your operating system, browser IP, CPU cores, RAM size, and track your device IP whether you're using a computer, mobile, or laptop.
Hardware Analysis →IP Trust Score and IP Fraud Score: What Is the Difference?
Sites do not only read your address. They check what is known about the network behind it: whether it belongs to a residential provider or a hosting company, whether it has appeared in abuse reports, and whether the traffic pattern looks automated. That reputation is why two people can visit the same site and get very different treatment.
IP Trust Score
This shows how healthy your internet connection is. If you use normal home internet from a good ISP like Comcast or Verizon, your ip score will be high. A high ip score means websites trust you more.
High Trust = Less CAPTCHAs, easier access to websites.
IP Fraud Score
This is the inverse view of the same signals, and it is what a business sees when it screens a visitor. Banks, shops and streaming services read it before trusting a connection. To score a different address rather than your own, use the IP fraud score checker.
High IP Fraud Score = Blocked accounts, payment problems, access denied.
Are you wondering why websites block you? Our IP Blacklist Checker scans 100+ databases. You can also discover ip problems using our IP fraud score checker and learn why IPs get blocked.
How Your IP Score Is Worked Out
There is no single authority that grades an IP address. Every site that checks yours — a bank, a store, a game server, a signup form — runs its own read on the same handful of public facts. The number here is our read on those same facts, so you can see roughly what they see before they act on it.
Four things carry most of the weight.
Who the address belongs to
A residential line from Comcast, Spectrum or Verizon is the strongest signal there is, because almost every real customer is on one. An address registered to a hosting company is the opposite: servers do not browse, so traffic from a data center is treated as automated until it proves otherwise. This is the single biggest factor, and it is also the one people are most often caught by without realizing — a cheap VPN usually puts you on a hosting range. You can see who owns the block behind any address with the ASN lookup.
Whether it is flagged as a proxy
Commercial VPN and proxy ranges are published and widely shared. Being on one is not wrongdoing, but it does mean the site cannot tell you apart from everyone else sharing that exit. The awkward case is the reverse: a residential proxy routes through somebody's real home connection, so at the network level it looks exactly like a home connection — and it passes this check, and most others. If you want to know what your own connection is leaking about itself, the proxy detector reads the headers your browser is actually sending.
Whether it appears on a blocklist
Spamhaus, Barracuda, SpamCop and the rest keep public lists of addresses linked to spam or abuse. A listing is the most concrete mark against an address, and also the most fixable, because every major list has a delisting process. It is a separate check with a real answer rather than an estimate, so it has its own tool: the blacklist check queries six active lists and tells you which one flagged you and why.
Whether you are behind carrier NAT
On mobile data, thousands of subscribers share one public address. Nothing you do affects that, and it counts only lightly here — but it explains why the same phone can breeze through a site on Wi-Fi and hit a CAPTCHA wall on cellular ten minutes later.
What a score of zero does and does not mean
It means none of the four signals fired. That is good news, and it is not the same as proof. A residential proxy, a compromised home machine and an ordinary broadband line all score clean here, because at this level they look identical. If something important rests on the answer — you are about to approve a payment, or unblock an account — run the blacklist check alongside it and read the two together. For a full breakdown with every signal shown and weighted, the fraud score checker shows its working.
If your score came back low
Work through it in this order, because the cheapest fixes are also the most common causes:
- Turn off your VPN and check again. If the score jumps, the VPN exit was the problem, not your line. Switch servers or use a dedicated IP.
- Check for a listing. A blocklist entry is concrete and removable. Most people never find out they have one.
- Restart your router. On a dynamic address this often gets you a different one, and if the previous tenant of that address behaved badly, you inherit a clean slate.
- Ask your ISP if the problem persists. If a whole range is flagged, only they can escalate it.
Reputation is not permanent. Addresses recover, and listings expire.
Why Your Address Changes, and When It Does Not
The number above is probably not the same one you had last month. Whether that matters depends entirely on what you are trying to do.
Dynamic addresses, assigned by DHCP
Home connections almost always use a dynamic IP. Your router asks the provider for an address through DHCP and receives one on a lease that expires and renews. Reboot the router, or let the lease lapse, and you may come back with a different number. Providers do this because addresses are scarce and most subscribers never need a fixed one.
Static addresses, and who needs them
A static IP never changes. You need one if you are hosting a mail server, running a VPN endpoint others connect to, or sitting behind a corporate firewall rule that allows a specific address. It is normally a paid business option, and it makes you easier to identify precisely because it does not move.
The addresses that are never yours alone
Three ranges are reserved by RFC 1918 for private networks and never appear on the public internet: 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16. Your router hands one of these to every device in your home, then translates them all onto your single public address using NAT. That is why every device shows the same public number.
A fourth, 127.0.0.1, is the loopback address. It always means this machine and never leaves it, which is why localhost resolves there. And on mobile networks, CGNAT puts thousands of subscribers behind one shared public address, which is why phone connections are hard to geolocate and why an abuse report against a mobile address rarely identifies one person.
None of this is visible from the number alone. Working out which block an address belongs to, and who announces it, means checking the registry with a WHOIS lookup and the routing table with an ASN lookup. The scan above does both for your own address.
How an address is written down
Networks are described in CIDR notation rather than as lists of individual addresses. The number after the slash says how many leading bits are fixed, which fixes the size of the block. It is worth recognising because firewall rules, allow lists and abuse reports are all written this way.
| Notation | Addresses | Where you see it |
|---|---|---|
| /32 | 1 | One host, as in an allow list entry |
| /24 | 256 | A typical home or small office network |
| /16 | 65,536 | A large campus or a provider block |
| /8 | 16,777,216 | An early allocation held by a carrier |
Your own subnet mask tells your device which addresses are local and which need the router. The scan above reports the block your address sits in; to work through any other block, use the subnet calculator.
If the connection itself is the problem rather than the addressing, measure it directly: the ping test shows round-trip latency and packet loss, and the speed test measures actual throughput. For a site you are responsible for, the SSL certificate checker and email verifier cover the two things that break most often after a migration.
IPv4 vs IPv6: Two Types of IP
Your device might use an IPv4 address, an IPv6 address, or both at the same time. Knowing the difference helps you understand your internet protocol better and find problems with your connection.
| Feature | IPv4 Address | IPv6 Address |
|---|---|---|
| Example | 192.168.1.1 | 2001:0db8:85a3::7334 |
| Size | 32-bit | 128-bit |
| Total Addresses | About 4 billion | Unlimited (very large number) |
| Security | Basic | Built-in encryption |
| Status Today | Most common, running out | Getting more popular |
⚠️ Warning: IPv6 Leak Risk
Many VPNs only hide your IPv4. Your real IPv6 can still be visible! This is called a "dual-stack leak." Your private ip address might be protected, but your external ip address through IPv6 could be exposed. Use our full browser leak audit to check.
Privacy Leaks: Protect Your Real IP
Do you use a VPN or proxy for anonymous browsing? That might not be enough! Smart trackers can find your real IP through hidden leaks. Our tools help you detect ip leaks and protect your ip privacy before it's too late.
WebRTC Leak
WebRTC can bypass your VPN and hand your real address to a website even while the tunnel is up. It is the most common single reason a VPN user is still identifiable, and it takes seconds to check.
Test WebRTC Leak →DNS Leak
If your DNS requests go to your ISP instead of your VPN, every website you visit is recorded. This breaks your ip privacy even with encryption on.
Check DNS Records →Timezone Mismatch
If your VPN shows London but your browser says New York time, websites know something is wrong. This mismatch reveals you're hiding your real location.
Timezone Check →Want to really protect yourself? Learn about VPN vs proxy for hiding your IP, and see why residential proxies work better for bypassing blocks.
Why Choose TrustMyIP?
Alongside the scan on this page there is a set of focused tools for the questions it raises: who owns a block, which ranges a network announces, what a domain publishes in DNS, and whether a mail message really came from where it claims.
| Feature | Basic Tools | TrustMyIP |
|---|---|---|
| Show My IP | ✓ | ✓ |
| City/Country Location | ✓ | ✓ |
| Forensic Intelligence Scan | ✗ | ✓ |
| IP Trust Score & IP Fraud Score | ✗ | ✓ |
| WebRTC Leak Detection | ✗ | ✓ |
| Browser Fingerprinting | ✗ | ✓ |
| Public DNSBL Check | ✗ | ✓ |
| Real-Time IP Status | ✗ | ✓ |
Complete The Complete TrustMyIP Tool Suite
Each one answers a single question properly rather than summarising several badly. All of them are free and none require an account.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about IP addresses answered in simple words that anyone can understand.
What is my IP address and why should I care?
Your IP address is like a phone number for your computer. Every device online has one. It matters because websites use it to know where you are and decide if they trust you. Use our IP address checker to see what your IP reveals about you.
How to find my IP address?
Finding your IP is easy! Just visit TrustMyIP.com and look at the top of the page. You'll see my public ip displayed right away. Our tool also runs a full security check at the same time - no clicks needed.
Can websites find my home address from my IP?
No! Websites can only see your city or general area - not your street or house number. Your exact home address is only known by your Internet Service Provider. Learn more about what your IP can and cannot reveal.
What is my current IP address? Does it change?
Your current ip is shown at the top of this page. Most home internet gives you a different IP every now and then (called dynamic IP). If you restart your router, you might get a new one. Use our tool to check my ip address online anytime to see your current ip status.
What's the difference between public and private IP?
Your public IP address is what websites see, and your provider assigns it. Your private IP address sits inside your home network and comes from the ranges reserved by RFC 1918: 10.x.x.x, 172.16 to 172.31, and 192.168.x.x. A third address, 127.0.0.1, is the loopback that always means this machine, which is why localhost resolves to it. When you want to see my public ip or find my public ip address, our tool shows your public one.
Why do some websites block my IP?
Websites block IPs for many reasons: your IP might be on a blacklist, you might be using a VPN they don't like, or your IP has a bad reputation from past users. Check our blacklist tool to see if your IP has problems.
How can I hide my IP address online?
You can hide my ip using a VPN (Virtual Private Network), a proxy service, or the Tor browser. Each method hides your real IP and lets you browse with more privacy. Read our guide on VPN vs proxy to choose the best option.
Who is my ISP and why does it matter?
Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) is the company that gives you internet access - like Comcast, AT&T, Spectrum, or Verizon. They give you your IP and can see everything you do online. Our tool shows who is my ISP instantly along with your isp information and network information.
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Last updated: 10 August 2026