IP Lookup

Your public IP address is the number the internet sees you under - not the internal 192.168 address in your home network, but the one your provider hands you to the outside. Knowing it is surprisingly often useful: when setting up a firewall rule, whitelisting yourself in a service, checking whether your VPN really works, or just out of curiosity.

IP Lookup automatically determines your current IP on opening and assigns it to a country. You see the address large and clear, plus the country flag, the spelled-out country name and the continent. One click copies the IP to the clipboard, another refreshes the display - handy when you are toggling a VPN and want to watch the change live.

An honest word on accuracy: geolocation works at country level, not street or city. An IP reliably reveals the country and continent, but no precise location and certainly no person. That is a technical limitation and a good thing - for the purpose of determining the origin country of a connection it is entirely sufficient. The geolocation data comes from DB-IP under the CC-BY 4.0 licence.

Unlike most other tools on werkzeu.ge, IP Lookup needs a server call, because only the server receiving your request knows your public IP - the browser cannot see it itself. So the request goes to our own endpoint, not a foreign third party, and returns nothing but IP, country and continent.

Anyone signed in as an administrator additionally gets a search field to look up arbitrary IP addresses - for example to see which country a suspicious login attempt came from. This function is deliberately restricted to admins and secured server-side; normal users only ever see their own IP.

IP Lookup is usable without registration and open to guests. No search history is kept, no profiles are built, nothing is sold. Just open it, read your IP, see the country, done.