216.73.216.96

You can use curl, httpie, wget, or whatever command line tool you prefer. Here's an example with curl:

Check your current IP:

curl ip.nc.gy

Look up information about your own IP:

curl ip.nc.gy/asn

curl ip.nc.gy/org

curl ip.nc.gy/country

curl ip.nc.gy/city

curl ip.nc.gy/proxy

curl ip.nc.gy/vpn

curl ip.nc.gy/hosting

curl ip.nc.gy/tor

Or get everything in JSON format:

curl ip.nc.gy/json
{
  "ip": "1.1.1.1",
  "continent": { ... },
  "country": { ... },
  "city": { ... },
  "location": { ... },
  "asn": { ... },
  "proxy": { ... }
}

Look up information about a specific IP:

curl ip.nc.gy/json?ip=1.1.1.1
{
  "ip": "1.1.1.1",
  "continent": { ... },
  "country": { ... },
  "city": { ... },
  "location": { ... },
  "asn": { ... },
  "proxy": { ... }
}

Use curl -4 or curl -6 to specifically check your IPv4 or IPv6 address.

Send a request to the /json endpoint, or send a request with the application/json header.

Sure, but please respect our rate limits. Normally it's 30 RPM, and under heavy load we may drop it to 10 or 5 RPM.

The API is meant for manual use or small projects. If your site uses our API to look up visitor IPs, please use a message queue so requests don't block. If your project has high traffic or needs low latency, you're better off using our open source offline database: Merged IP Database. That's actually what this project uses under the hood.

Geolocation data mainly comes from the free databases by Maxmind and DB-IP. AS data comes from IPinfo's free database. Proxy data comes from my own OpenProxyDB.

Data attributions:

• MaxMind GeoLite2: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
• IPinfo Lite: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
• DB-IP: CC BY 4.0
• RouteViews ASN: CC0 1.0
• OpenProxyDB: CC0 1.0

Yes, the source code and database are both open source and on GitHub:

• https://github.com/NetworkCats/rustyip
• https://github.com/NetworkCats/Merged-IP-Data

The biggest thing is proxy detection. Our database covers proxy related data and the accuracy is really good. We've tested it privately against commercial databases like IPinfo's, and we hold up just as well, and actually do better on residential proxy detection.

We also have better IPv6 geolocation coverage since we merge multiple databases together, so the data ends up being more complete.

The UX is also better than most IP lookup sites out there. The site runs without any JavaScript, and we only pull in a minimal amount of external resources (fonts and icons), so it loads fast on the first visit.

The whole thing is written in Rust, so performance is great. It can handle L7 DDoS traffic and stay up fine. It runs on a 2 core 2 GB VPS, which is already more than enough. The only thing that could cause real trouble is a large scale L7 DDoS, but we have Cloudflare in front of us.

It costs me $18.00/month to run, which is pretty cheap. I'm not going to shut it down over hosting costs anytime soon, and there won't be any ads.

This service is not going to rug pull on you.

I accept crypto donations. If you want to contribute, reach out at: networkcatlol@gmail.com