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How to Use the IP Lookup Tool
Click Show my IP
Nothing is sent when the page opens. Click Show my IP and your browser asks ipify (api.ipify.org) for your public address, then ipapi.co — or freeipapi.com if that fails — for its approximate location, ISP and timezone.
Look up a different IP or domain
To look up a different IP address or domain name, type it into the search box. You can enter an IPv4 address (e.g. 8.8.8.8), an IPv6 address, or a domain name (e.g. google.com).
Click Lookup
Click the Lookup button to retrieve the full geolocation details for that IP, including country, region, city, coordinates, ISP, timezone, and ASN. For domain names, the tool resolves the domain to an IP first.
Copy your public IP
Click Copy IP to copy your public IP address to the clipboard. Useful when you need to share your IP address with a network administrator or support team.
IP Addresses — The Internet's Addressing System Explained
What Your IP Address Reveals About You — and What It Doesn't
Your IP address is the numerical label assigned to your device by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Every time you connect to a website, server, or online service, your IP address is visible to that server — it is a fundamental requirement of how the internet works.
What an IP address actually reveals is more limited than most people assume. Geolocation databases are usually right about the country and less reliable about the city — a mobile connection can come out in a different city altogether. What they reveal is your approximate city, your ISP, and the organisation that registered the IP block. They do not reveal your name, your street address, your phone number, or your browsing history — none of that information is encoded in an IP address.
Your ISP, however, sees considerably more. Because your broadband connection runs through their infrastructure, they can observe all unencrypted traffic on your connection — including which websites you visit and when. Encrypted traffic (HTTPS, TLS) hides the content of your communications but not the destination IP address. This is why privacy-conscious users use VPNs or encrypted DNS resolvers like Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1.
There is also an important distinction between your private IP (the address your router assigns to your device — usually something like 192.168.x.x) and your public IP (the address your ISP assigns to your router, visible to the outside world). This tool shows your public IP — the one websites see. Your private IP stays within your home network and is not visible on the internet.
IP addresses can be static (fixed, the same every time you connect) or dynamic (reassigned periodically). Most Singapore home broadband users receive a dynamic IP, which can change when the router reconnects. Business broadband customers and those on certain plans can request static IPs, which are common for running servers.
IPv4 vs IPv6: Singapore's Transition and What It Means for You
IPv4, specified in RFC 791 (September 1981), uses a 32-bit address format — the familiar four-number notation like 203.116.12.45. This allows for approximately 4.3 billion unique addresses, a number that seemed enormous in the 1980s but proved wholly insufficient as internet adoption exploded across the globe. On 3 February 2011 the free pool held by IANA (the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) ran out: its last five /8 blocks went one each to the five regional registries (Number Resource Organization, 3 February 2011). New allocations now come only from what the registries hold, reclaimed blocks and transfers.
IPv6 was developed to solve this exhaustion. It uses a 128-bit address format — written as eight groups of hexadecimal digits, separated by colons (e.g. 2001:db8::1, a prefix reserved for documentation). This allows for 2128 — about 340 undecillion (3.4 × 1038) — unique addresses.
Singapore is not an IPv6 leader in the region. APNIC Labs' measurement put about 23% of Singapore users as IPv6-capable in September 2026 (30-day average), against about 74% in Malaysia, 65% in Vietnam and 51% in Thailand (APNIC Labs). If the address this tool shows you contains colons, you are on IPv6. Most modern devices support both formats simultaneously (called dual-stack), using IPv6 when available and falling back to IPv4 when needed.
Across ASEAN the spread is wide: the same APNIC series had Indonesia near 28% and the Philippines near 21% at the same date, so whether you are on IPv6 depends heavily on your country and your network.
"Every device on the internet has an IP address — but your home IP address only reveals your ISP and approximate city, not your street address or personal identity."
VPNs, Proxies and IP Masking: A Plain-English Guide for ASEAN Users
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) works by routing your internet traffic through a server operated by the VPN provider. When you connect to a VPN, websites you visit see the VPN server's IP address instead of your own. This effectively hides your true public IP from external services.
Common reasons to use a VPN include privacy on public Wi-Fi, secure remote access to a corporate network, and reaching content that is restricted by region.
What a VPN does not do is change the law: its legal status depends on the country, and anything unlawful stays unlawful through a VPN. Check local rules before relying on one.
Proxy servers work similarly to VPNs but typically only route specific application traffic (such as browser traffic) rather than all traffic on your device. They are generally less private than VPNs as they do not encrypt your traffic. Tor (The Onion Router) takes IP masking a step further, routing traffic through multiple volunteer-operated nodes to make tracing significantly more difficult — though at the cost of much slower connection speeds.
Online gaming platforms and streaming services have become increasingly sophisticated at detecting and blocking VPN IPs. This is done by maintaining blocklists of known VPN server IP ranges. When a streaming service blocks a VPN IP, users often find that switching to a different VPN server or provider — one with less widely known IP ranges — restores access temporarily. An "IP ban" in online games typically means the game server has blocked your IP address, either because of rule violations or because your IP is on a shared blocklist. If you receive an unjust IP ban, contacting the game publisher's support with your IP details (from this tool) is the standard first step.
IANA's free pool ran dry in February 2011, and Singapore trails its neighbours on IPv6
IPv4 addresses are 32-bit numbers, theoretically allowing ~4.3 billion unique addresses — a number that became insufficient as internet adoption exploded globally.
IANA's free pool of IPv4 addresses ran out on 3 February 2011, when its last five /8 blocks went to the five regional registries.
About 23% of Singapore users were IPv6-capable in September 2026 by APNIC Labs' measurement — against about 74% in Malaysia.
IP addresses starting with 192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x, or 172.16–31.x.x are private addresses — they exist only within your home network and are not visible on the internet.
Google Public DNS answers on 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4; this tool uses Google's DNS-over-HTTPS service to turn a domain into an IP.
The coordinates a geolocation lookup returns are the centre of an area, not a position — a mobile connection routed through a central hub can land in another city.
IPv6 has 2128 addresses — about 3.4 × 1038, or 296 times the whole of IPv4.
Cloudflare launched its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver on 1 April 2018 — choosing the date to match the address.
2001:db8::/32 is reserved for documentation, like 192.0.2.0/24 for IPv4 — examples written with it can never collide with a real network.
WHOIS records for IP address blocks reveal the registered organisation — meaning a company's IP range can be publicly traced back to its name through ARIN, RIPE, or APNIC databases.
Frequently Asked Questions
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An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a numerical label assigned to every device connected to a computer network. It serves two purposes: identifying the host device and providing its network location. IPv4 addresses look like 203.116.12.45 (four numbers separated by dots), while IPv6 addresses use a longer hexadecimal format.
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Your IP address reveals your approximate location (usually accurate to city-level), your ISP, and the organisation that registered the IP block. It does not reveal your full name, exact home address, phone number, or browsing history. City-level geolocation is less reliable than country-level — mobile connections are often placed in the wrong city.
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IPv4 is the older standard using 32-bit addresses (e.g. 203.116.12.45), allowing around 4.3 billion unique addresses — which were fully exhausted in 2011. IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses (e.g. 2001:db8::1) and supports about 340 undecillion (2128) unique addresses. Most modern devices and networks support both simultaneously (dual-stack).
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A public IP address is assigned by your ISP to your router and is visible to websites and servers on the internet — this is what this tool shows. A private IP address (such as 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x) is assigned by your router to individual devices within your home or office network and is not directly visible outside that network.
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No. An IP address can reveal your approximate city and ISP, but not your street address. Your ISP holds the mapping between your IP and your account details, but this information is only disclosed in response to lawful requests (e.g. court orders). A random person on the internet cannot look up your home address from your IP.
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When you connect to a VPN, your internet traffic is routed through the VPN provider's server. Websites and services you visit see the VPN server's IP address rather than your own. The connection between your device and the VPN server is encrypted, preventing your ISP from seeing which sites you visit (though they can see that you are connected to a VPN).
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No. Websites see the VPN server's IP instead of yours, but the VPN provider sees your real IP and where your traffic goes, and logins, cookies and browser fingerprinting still identify you. Whether using one is lawful depends on the country, and a VPN does not change what is lawful to do through it.
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IP geolocation works by mapping IP address ranges to geographic locations using commercial and public databases. Country-level detection is usually right; city-level detection is less reliable and can place mobile connections in a different city entirely if the ISP routes traffic through a central hub. The coordinates shown are the centre of the detected area, not your precise location.
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Your router acts as a gateway between your home network and the internet. Your ISP assigns a single public IP to your router. Your router then uses NAT (Network Address Translation) to assign private IP addresses (like 192.168.x.x) to each device in your home. Multiple devices can share one public IP this way — which is also why IPv4 has lasted as long as it has despite the address shortage.
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Yes — completely free, with no account, subscription, or hidden limits. The tool uses free-tier geolocation APIs (ipapi.co with freeipapi.com as fallback). RECATOOLS is free to use, with no paywall — we plan to fund it with contextual advertising, shown only with your consent. The tool works with or without ad consent enabled.
Method & sources
How it computes
Nothing is fetched until you click. Show my IP asks api.ipify.org for your public address, then ipapi.co (freeipapi.com if it fails) for approximate location, ISP, timezone and ASN; a domain is resolved to its first A record through Google's DNS-over-HTTPS API. Those services see your IP and query; RECATOOLS stores neither.
What this tool implements
- The page used to send every visitor's IP to ipify and ipapi.co on page load and named neither; it now waits for a click and names all four services it calls.
- APNIC Labs, September 2026 (30-day average): about 23% of Singapore users are IPv6-capable, against 74% in Malaysia, 65% in Vietnam and 51% in Thailand — the page had claimed 55–60% and a regional lead.
- NRO: IANA's free IPv4 pool was depleted on 3 February 2011, its last five /8s going to the five RIRs. RFC 3849 and RFC 5737 reserve 2001:db8::/32 and 192.0.2.0/24 for documentation.
Sources
- APNIC Labs. IPv6 capable rate by country — Singapore. https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/SG
- Number Resource Organization. Free Pool of IPv4 Address Space Depleted (3 February 2011). https://www.nro.net/ipv4-free-pool-depleted/
- Postel J. RFC 791: Internet Protocol. 1981. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc791.html
- Huston G, Lord A, Smith P. RFC 3849: IPv6 Address Prefix Reserved for Documentation. 2004. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3849.html
- Cloudflare. Announcing 1.1.1.1 (1 April 2018). https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
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