IP Address Lookup
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Your IP Address
216.73.216.59
Columbus, United States
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Amazon.com
| IPv4 Address | 216.73.216.59 |
| IPv6 Address | Not detected |
| Country |
United States
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| Region | Ohio |
| City | Columbus |
| ISP | Amazon.com |
| Organisation | Anthropic, PBC |
| Timezone | America/New_York |
| AS Number | AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc. |
No IPv6 address was detected from your connection — your tunnel appears clean. If you are using a VPN, this is a good sign that IPv6 traffic is properly contained.
Every device online broadcasts an IP address. Here is what that exposes about you.
Every site you visit logs your IP address. This data can be sold to data brokers, used for ad targeting, or handed to authorities on request — all without your consent.
Your Internet Service Provider can see every domain you visit, when you visit it, and for how long. In many countries, ISPs are legally required to retain this data for months or years.
Ad networks combine your IP address with cookies, browser fingerprinting, and browsing history to create a detailed profile of who you are — even across incognito sessions.
Everything you need to know about IP addresses and online privacy.
Your IP address is more than a number — it is a persistent identifier that governments, ISPs, and advertisers can use to track everything you do online.
Every device connected to the internet uses an Internet Protocol (IP) address to send and receive data. There are two versions in active use: IPv4, which uses a 32-bit format (e.g. 85.23.114.9) and supports roughly 4.3 billion unique addresses, and IPv6, a 128-bit format (e.g. 2001:db8::1) designed to provide a practically unlimited address space as IPv4 exhaustion has become a real-world constraint for ISPs.
Within those versions, addresses fall into two categories by scope. Your public IP address is what the wider internet sees — it is assigned by your ISP and is visible to every website and service you connect to. Your private IP address is an internal address assigned by your router, used only within your home network (typically in the 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x ranges). Websites never see your private address.
ISPs also distinguish between static and dynamic IP addresses. A static address never changes — it is the same every time you connect. Business broadband packages often include a static IP. Dynamic addresses (the default for residential broadband) are reassigned from a pool each time you reconnect, though in practice many UK ISPs assign the same address for months at a time due to long DHCP lease periods. Dynamic addresses offer slightly more privacy, but because ISPs log which customer held which address at every moment in time, the practical privacy benefit is limited without additional measures.
Your ISP sits between your device and every website you visit, giving it a unique vantage point on your entire internet activity. Even when sites use HTTPS encryption, your ISP can observe the IP addresses and domain names you connect to, the volume and timing of your traffic, and your DNS queries — the lookups that translate domain names like google.com into IP addresses.
DNS is particularly revealing. Unless you configure an encrypted DNS provider (DNS-over-HTTPS or DNS-over-TLS), your ISP sees the domain name behind every website you visit in plain text — even when the page itself is encrypted. This alone creates a detailed map of your browsing habits, covering your news sources, health queries, financial services, and social media use.
Beyond passive observation, UK ISPs are legally required to use Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology to enforce blocking orders under IWF (Internet Watch Foundation) requirements and court-ordered injunctions targeting piracy. DPI examines packet metadata and — where traffic is unencrypted — content headers. A VPN encrypts all traffic before it leaves your device, making DPI unable to classify or inspect your connection content.
The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 — commonly referred to as the Snooper's Charter — introduced one of the most extensive mass surveillance frameworks in any democratic country. Under Part 4 of the Act, UK internet service providers and telecommunications companies are legally required to retain Internet Connection Records (ICRs) for a minimum of 12 months.
An ICR is a log of every website domain your IP address accessed, when you accessed it, and for how long. It does not capture the content of pages or messages, but the metadata alone is extraordinarily revealing. Academic researchers have demonstrated that metadata logs can accurately infer health conditions, political views, religious practices, and relationship status — all without reading a single message.
These records are accessible to a wide range of public bodies — not only police and intelligence agencies, but also local councils, HMRC, the Food Standards Agency, and dozens of other organisations — without requiring a judicial warrant in all circumstances. The Act also permits bulk interception of international internet traffic passing through UK infrastructure.
The IPA was challenged before the Court of Appeal and the European Court of Human Rights, which found aspects of earlier predecessor legislation incompatible with fundamental rights. Despite legal challenges, the Act remains in force and was extended in scope by the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024. For UK residents, minimising the data collected at source — by using an encrypted VPN that prevents ISPs from recording meaningful ICRs — is the most effective technical countermeasure currently available.
When you visit a website without a VPN, the site logs your IP address alongside your visit timestamp and activity. Over time, advertisers and data brokers aggregate these logs across thousands of partner sites to build persistent behavioural profiles tied to your IP. Even without cookies, your IP address combined with your browser fingerprint enables cross-site tracking that survives private browsing mode and cookie deletion.
IP-based geolocation powers geo-restrictions — the mechanism by which streaming services, news sites, and retail platforms display different content and prices to users in different countries. Your IP address determines which version of the internet you see. A UK IP typically unlocks BBC iPlayer but may block certain US streaming catalogues; a US IP does the reverse. Replacing your IP with one from a VPN server in your chosen region gives you control over which regional internet you can access.
From a security perspective, your public IP is the address attackers use to target your connection. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against gamers, targeted port scanning, and social engineering attacks all begin with the attacker knowing your IP address. Masking your real IP with a VPN removes you as a direct target — the attacker sees the VPN provider's server infrastructure, not your home router or mobile connection.
NovaBridgeVPN assigns you one of its server IP addresses the moment you connect, replacing your real IP for all traffic leaving your device. Combined with no activity logs, this means neither the sites you visit nor your ISP can build an accurate record of your online activity. The free plan includes servers across multiple regions — enough to experience the privacy and speed benefits before choosing a premium subscription.