What is my IP address?
“What is your IP?” is the first thing support asks and the last thing most people know. This answers it — with the country worked out on your own device, not by handing your address to another site.
- Runs from your browser, not our server
- No sign-up
- No watermark
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How it works
- Press “Show my IP”. Only our own server is contacted.
- Read your address and its country. The country comes from a small table your browser downloads the first time.
- For IPv6, the owner (your provider, a VPN, a cloud host) and the reverse name, press “More details” — that part does contact outside services, and says so.
Why nothing is uploaded
Every operation on this page is done by code running inside your browser tab, using the same engine that renders web pages. The file is read from disk into your tab’s memory, transformed there, and written back out as a download. It is never sent anywhere — not to us, not to a third party.
Verify it yourself
- Open your browser’s developer tools (F12) and select the Network tab.
- Load your file and run the tool.
- The only requests you will see fetch the tool’s own code — and, for a few heavy tools, their open-source engine from a public CDN — plus one small page-view ping to loreatec.jp (page address and title, nothing more). None of them carry your file.
Frequently asked questions
Why can’t my own device just tell me my IP?
Your device only knows its private address inside your home or office network. The public address the world sees is given to you by your provider and only appears from outside, so something on the internet has to tell you what it is. Here that something is our own server, which simply repeats back the address your request arrived with.
How is the country found without sending my address anywhere?
Every address block is registered to a country, and that is public data. Your browser downloads that table once (DB-IP Lite, about 770 KB) and looks your address up locally — the same idea as the postal-code tool. Your address is not sent out to be geolocated.
How does this show whether my VPN is on?
If the country is not where you are, the VPN is on. For more certainty, press “More details”: your own provider (say NTT or KDDI) means no VPN; a hosting or VPN company means the VPN is on.
What is sent, and to whom?
By default, only the request to our own server, which sees the address it arrived from — as every web server does. The country lookup happens inside your browser. Only if you press “More details” is your address sent to outside services: ipify (for IPv6), the regional registry (owner) and Cloudflare DNS (reverse name).