I got an email from Jake asking me about how to check where is the location of an IP address. OK, I try to enable IP address logging in my website wherever I can. If you send an email using the contact form, your IP address and hostname will be attached to the message that you send to me. Whenever you’re logged in to forum, I get to see your IP address. If you leave a comment on any of my articles, your IP address will be logged. Once you get in to raymond.cc, your IP address will automatically be logged by Webalizer. Don’t be afraid as it is used mainly for statistical purposes only. Other than that, it is good to have IP address logging because I get to see where the nice and bad people are from.
For example, I get to know most of the nice “thank you” emails that I get are from people in US. And then sadly there’s one particular person from MALAYSIA occasionally leaves useless and nonsense comments which can be easily deleted with a click. There’s also another country (which I don’t want to reveal) where many people beg for stuff (rapidshare, hacking emails and etc).
IP address logging is very important for online shopping website too. Once I was handling an ebook website for a company and there were a lot of charge backs from a specific country. I purchased an IP to Country database and blocked everyone coming from that country. The earnings wasn’t affected and charge backs has been reduced.
If you have an IP address and would like to trace where is the location, here’s what I usually use.
My first choice is VisualRoute. There is a desktop version of VisualRoute which cost money but I prefer to use their free web service to trace an IP. This VisualRoute Server provides a graphical traceroute and ping test from its server to any other network device you choose, useful for pinpointing network connectivity problems and identifying IP address locations.
It’s very easy to use. Just enter the IP address that you want to trace and hit the Start button. To see the location of the IP address, click the Map tab. VisualRoute loads pretty slow because it requires Java.
My second choice is IP2Location. This company is from Malaysia and they have full databases of IP address to country plus many other options. They have a live product demo where you can enter an IP address, and it’ll find the IP address’s location.
If you’re wondering why are they selling databases of IP – Country, there are actually many uses for web developers. Like I mentioned above, I manage to filter access from countries that has high fraud rate. Other than that, you can also display native language and currency, redirect web pages based on geographical, auto-selection of country on forms and etc…
There you have it, the 2 places where I go when I want to find out a location of an IP address. If you have any great sites that you use to trace an IP address, please share with us by leaving a comment.
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Love this! :D
Hi, about know the exact IP address of a specific facebook user? Is there any way I can obtain that and can use the application you posted?
Cool info Ray… keep up the good job.
Hi,
Thank you writing this article. It was very informative. Although, I am stuck with a unique problem. I am trying to design this website for a client in which the client has a member login area.
I wanted to incorporate the features of gmail, where in gmail has enabled its account user to view information in a tabular format about when the user had loged in last time and the IP address though which the user had loged-in into the gmail account. I wonder how this is done? Can you help?
Thank you
Sincerely,
Manav Keni
Hey budy…
you work in really cool way…
I want to know how i can trace exact location through a Ip…i work in java,but till now i have not come across any code for doing this…if u can please help me out…
Hi there!
How is everybody? I am completely new here!
Laters ya’ll.
Cristy
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Thank you bro but the location which it shows is not correct it shows the main ISP provider of city.
i need exact location is it possible ?
Could you direct me how to locate the origin country of the ip?
how to block an ip address is being hacked by anyone in my pc ,to block the ip by viewed by others
Thank you so much!! I found you post helpful.
Also ich nutze immer den Dienst von infosniper.net um IP-Adressen zu lokalisieren, damit hatte ich bisher die besten Ergebnisse erzielt.
perfect free ip-to-geo locator: uzaren.com
hi, raymond…
i have a friend who said he is in south africa and emailed me using hotmail. i traced the x-originating IP addr is in malaysia.
is that possible or my friend telling lie about his exact location?
pls reply. thanks so much!
slt je voudrer savoir a partir d’ un proxy coment identifier la veritable ip ^^^
je cite un exenple car c’ est pas tjr évident de comprendre ceux que je veut
imaginons mon proxy et le suivant 45.45.78.77
et je veut a partir de ce proxy identifer la veritable ip
coment doi je faire?
merci de votre réponse ^^
Gracias Amigo, me parece excelente la ayuda que prestas con este servicio, te felicito. Continua asi, siendo un buen profesional. Cuidate.
Ray, I would be surprised if the country you mentioned is not Nigerian. I am a hardworking and honest Nigerian, also being spammed. However the case may be I do not subscribe to generallisation because of afew bad eggs.
If you are truthfull to your self you would realise that these spammers are criminals found in every country.
I found ur site while serching the topic of Locating an IP address, Nobody has the right to bombard another persons email continuously with Psychotic get rich quick schemes. They have overcome the Spamm guard by making use of Disposable addresses while the actual email is embeded in the body of the mail.
Hi you place is wonderful, I learnt a lot here but i would like to know (urgent) if it is possible to block my own country without blocking my own ip or my friend’s.Thank you so much
Hola tu sitio me parece fantastico, aprendí muchas cosas aqui, pero me gustaria saber (urgente) si es posible bloquear mi propio pais sin bloquear mi ip o la de mis amigos.Gracias
If you check ipgp.net you will get exact address and a map with exact location
please tell me, how to get the ip address of the person i am chatting with. Is there any way to find it. It can be used to check if he/she is lying there place.
Thanks buds, whoever u are. U are great help for simple newcomers like us. Thanks for great info u put.
regards
jai
Thank U very much Raymond.
Hey, you articles are very useful, I suscribe without even knowing what I was doing, now I read everyday your articles.
Thank You
PD. Hope the country you did not want to reveal was not Mexico =)
I know that begging country is India! I am from India and I know that for something free most of them will do almost anything..even beg!
Neways, thanks Raymond for the knowledge. Always useful..
rofl! Jimmy thats the most unique ip checker i have ever seen!
Thanks Jimmy! That is like the weirdest IP checker of all! LOL
I love this! You’ll should try, Yes Raymond, you too:
moanmyip.com/
There is plug-n for Firefox, and also just a site, to give you location hostip.info/
I also once used Perl scripts and used public database for the locations.
@tm: Visit a site that tells you ip. Like this one:
whatismyip.com/
Hi Raymond , how do i know my own IP , because in the connection it said obtain IP address automatically
Great job Raymond!
The VisualRoute takes a while to load and they have too many buttons (information overload. lol). The IP2 location is great in GUI but only limit to 20 search.
I got this link from my lecturer
whatismyipaddress.com/
(Also not bad)
Keep it going Raymond~
nice stuff raymond… =)
Hi Raymond
only been reading your news letters couple months I stumbeled on to your sight doing google search for date on computer problem so i joined your sight i have found several items of use and have enjoyed reading your articals. thanks for the great topics and all your time and effort you put into your articals
From USA N/W Ohio
Thnx Rymond but i still wants you to make the links to open in a new window
China. Gotta be China.
I’m from the U.S. but living in Japan, and after spending the last decade or so online you pretty much just come to find out certain givens.. such as many, many Amercians are huge BT hit-and-runners, that many, *many* Israellis are tremendous BT cheats, many, many, *many* Chinese will take a half-ass knock off product over a better one even if the legit alternative is near, if not, free, etc., etc.
Not a racial thing, but coutries have their “net characters.”
Raymond, love the site and have been reading for some time. Please keep up the great work that keeps us coming bac. :)
Noformz: i believe Ray purposely put the ads near the text, so that ppl will click on it.
Ray: ip2location has great DB. but too bad it shows i am in KL instead of KK, sabah.
I really look forward to your newsletters. Thank you for so many useful tips. I added a link to your site on my website recommending you. Keep up the good work!
Hey Raymond!!!
I was wondering if you can put more space between the articles’ text and the ads. Cause sometimes it can be very confusing and mind boggling to read your articles with the ads so close to it. And it indirectly makes your articles look messy. xD
Just a suggestion
hmm..how about ipgp.net/?
MR7, nope you’re wrong. Not brazil ;)
Let me guess, the country where people just beg for free stuff would be Brazil? I’m brazilian and I know our fame, even in online games we are knew as the scum of the servers, because of cheat and other things. Anyway, nice tools, I’ll know where to find when I need…
Cheers Raymond, yet another useful tip. Another useful site, though its output is text only but is very quick, is dnsstuff.com/ which allows you to check all kinds of details related to an IP such as complete WHOis data, including country, ISP, abuse contact details etc. as well as other services like various DNS checks, reverse lookups etc. It is free for non commercial use though they do have a policy against abusing the free service and will block IPs that hammer their service but the average user will have to go somke to trigger that block.
Hi Raymond, I would just like to say thank you for a fantastic website and some really great info and hints. You have saved the day more than once for me. Please keep up the great work.
PS the new site looks great
Mike
priceless knowledge.
thanks man.
greetings dude,
Many thanks for sharing…. your sites are forever awesome.
Great job buddy………..
To trace the real location with address, you’ll need the help of ISP. IP address can reveal which country is the user from. And yes, proxy does mess up identification. That’s why when hackers uses a chain of proxy address, it is virtually hard to trace.
In most cases, the IP adress can reveal the origin of a user (with the assistance of your ISP). However, you can use a proxy to mess up your identification. Furthermore, if I call a US based Internet provider from a public phone in my country, the IP is US but my location is Paris, France.
Just tried the IP2location website. My IP was traced at my country’s capital, which lies 3000kms away from my home.
Thats a little less accurate! isn’t it?
Thanks of the info Raymond.
Adding some more info,
The IP trace leads you only to the location of the ISP. That means we cant find the exact location of the IP. The exact location can be determined only of that particular ISP is made to disclose their customer ip database.
Personally i use ip-adress.com . They provide location via Google Maps, which is more informative.
thanx man.i’av been reading ua articles 4 the past 7 month now.i found them very useful
Thanks for this info. Very useful indeed.