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WHOIS IP lookup

Look up the owner, ISP, network range, geolocation, and abuse contact for any IPv4 or IPv6 address, free and instant.

Look up the owner, ISP, network range, geolocation, and abuse contact for any IPv4 or IPv6 address, powered by RDAP registry data.

How to use the WHOIS IP lookup

Enter any IP address

IPv4 (like 8.8.8.8) and IPv6 (like 2001:4860:4860::8888) are both fully supported.

We query the right registry

The lookup routes to the Regional Internet Registry responsible for the IP, ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, LACNIC, or AFRINIC, over RDAP.

Review ownership details

Organization, ISP, ASN, network range in CIDR notation, country, and the registered abuse contact.

Expand raw RDAP if needed

The full machine-readable registry object is one click away for deep investigations.

Understanding the results

Organization & ISP

The company that holds the allocation, and the provider actually operating it, often different for cloud and CDN ranges.

ASN

The Autonomous System Number identifies the network that routes this IP, key for identifying hosting providers and cloud platforms.

Network range (CIDR)

The full block the IP belongs to. Useful when you need to allowlist, block, or investigate an entire range rather than one address.

Abuse contact

The registered email for reporting spam, phishing, or attacks originating from this IP or network.

Why run a WHOIS IP lookup?

Investigate suspicious senders

Trace the network owner behind an unknown IP sending email to your domain, a first step in any abuse investigation.

Email deliverability checks

Verify your sending IPs are registered to the expected organization before receiving servers make the same check.

Threat intelligence

Identify hosting providers and ASNs favored by attackers, spammers, and malicious campaigns.

Geolocation verification

Confirm the country and RIR region of an allocation for compliance and access-control decisions.

Frequently asked questions

It retrieves registration and ownership information for an IP address from the internet's Regional Internet Registries. Unlike a domain WHOIS, it focuses on network blocks: who holds them, which autonomous system routes them, and who to contact about abuse.

A domain lookup queries registrar data about a domain name; an IP lookup queries RIR data about a network allocation. They answer different questions, who owns this name vs. who operates this network.

Yes, IPv6 allocations are registered with the same RIRs and are fully supported.

The country comes from the registry allocation record, which reflects where the block is registered, usually accurate to country level, but not street-level geolocation.

Use the abuse contact returned by the lookup, it is the registered address the network operator is obligated to monitor for spam and attack reports.

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