IP address geolocation

Geolocate a public ip address
The IP address geolocation tool provides the exact details of the geographic location of a public IP address, but also other information such as city name, state, time zone and host. With our free geolocation tool, you can see in real time the geographical position of any IP address. Just enter the IP address and you will be shown its location on the map.
A valid IP address consists of a series of four numbers, for example 121.122.123.124, each of which can vary from 0 to 255. So the ip addresses can have a value between 0.0.0.0 and 255.255.255.255.
What is the purpose of knowing the geographical location of an IP address
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What mean geolocation of an IP address
The geolocation of a user can be done in different ways, for example through the HTML5 API, the cellular signal and the IP address. Taking into consideration the IP address, we can say with certainty that each address IP is associated with a geographical position for this it is used to know the geolocation data.
What is the purpose of knowing the geographical location of an IP address
If you are the owner of a website or an e-commerce site you may need to geolocate the IP addresses of the users who visit your site to know where they come from and use this data to offer content and/or products more similar to the uses and customs of their countries.
Through the geolocation of IP addresses you could therefore know the origin of your potential customers or perhaps discover that from certain countries, which you have identified through the geolocation of the IP address, fraud attempts with fake credit cards arrive more frequently. The geolocation of the IP address is also useful for identifying from which country mainly the hacker attacks that your website or e-commerce site has been suffering from for some time.
Our free tool geolocates the IP
Using the geolocation of the IP address you can find the precise position of a visitor to your website, but you must still consider that in some cases the position may be approximate. Using our IP address geolocation tool you will in most cases know the exact location of the host by simply entering the IP address. ARIN's Whois database provides a mechanism for finding contact and registration for IP resources registered with ARIN.
From IP address to Host information
My Personal IP was developed to allow you to know your IP address and obtain geographic information about it. Using the geolocation tool you can geolocate a host starting from the IP address you have.
You can also use reverse DNS to find out the host name of the IP address. In fact, there are many Internet Service Providers (ISPs), businesses, research institutions, etc., which use the name of the location in which they are located as a host name. But in these cases it is good that you know a couple of important things: reverse DNS only works if the server configuration The ISP's DNS was done correctly; the .com, .net, and .org domain extensions are not always located on a host located in the United States.
How to find out the path of IP addresses
You can use the 'traceroute' command to find clues to the location of the IP address. The names of the routers through which packets pass from the host to the destination host may suggest the geographic path of the final position.