What is my IP address?
This is the address, network and location the internet sees from your connection right now. Connect or disconnect your VPN and re-run it — if the address does not change, the VPN is not carrying your traffic.
Your public IP address
Checking your connection…
Asking our server what address your requests arrive from.
The lookup runs against Phantom VPN’s own server, and the network and location enrichment is done server-side against ipinfo.io — so your browser makes no third-party request and nothing about it is logged.
And everything else your browser volunteered
Your IP address is the part people know about. None of the values below required a permission prompt — every site you load can read them, and together they are far more identifying than an address that changes whenever you switch networks. This is why changing your IP alone does not make you anonymous.
What your IP address actually reveals
Roughly where you are. Country almost always, city often, street never. Geolocation reads your address out of a database that maps ranges to places; it is inference from registration and routing data, not a measurement of where your device is.
Who provides your connection. Every address belongs to an autonomous system — a network with a number, like AS15169 for Google. That tells a site whether you are on a home ISP, a mobile carrier, a university, or a datacentre.
Whether you are the same visitor as last time.This is the one that matters. A residential IP often stays put for weeks, so it works as a quiet identifier across every unrelated site you visit.
What it does not reveal
Your name or address. Your ISP can connect the address to your account. A website cannot. Bridging the two takes a legal demand to the ISP, not a lookup tool.
What you did. An IP address identifies a connection, not activity on it. With NAT and carrier-grade NAT, hundreds or thousands of households can share a single public address at once.
Your device. Every phone, laptop and TV behind one router shares the same public address. What distinguishes them is the fingerprint above, not the IP.
IP address questions, answered
What is an IP address?
It is the address other computers use to send data back to you, in the same way a postal address is how a letter finds your house. Every request you make carries it, because without a return address nothing could reply. It is assigned by whoever provides your connection — your home ISP, your mobile carrier, the cafe wifi, or your VPN provider — so it identifies your connection, not you personally, and it changes when your connection does.
Is it dangerous for a website to know my IP address?
On its own, no, and it is unavoidable: every site you visit necessarily learns it. What it reveals is your approximate location — usually your city, sometimes only your region — and who provides your internet. What makes it sensitive is accumulation. An IP address that stays the same across months of browsing is a stable identifier that lets separate sites, ad networks and data brokers recognise the same person and stitch those visits into one profile.
Why is the location shown here wrong?
IP geolocation is inference, not measurement. It works from databases mapping address ranges to places, and those are built from ISP registrations, routing announcements and self-reported data. City-level accuracy is roughly 55-80% depending on the country, and mobile networks are far worse because a carrier may route a whole region through one gateway. If the city is wrong but the country is right, that is normal and does not indicate a problem.
How do I hide my IP address?
A VPN or a proxy replaces the address sites see with the server’s, and Tor does the same through several relays. None of these make you anonymous by themselves, because your IP is only one of many ways a browser can be recognised — cookies, a logged-in account, and browser fingerprinting all work regardless. Changing your IP address changes what the network sees, not what a site you log into knows.
What does it mean if my IP is a "hosting" or "datacenter" address?
It means the address belongs to a network that hosts servers rather than one that serves homes. That is exactly what you should see when a VPN is connected, since a VPN exit node lives in a datacentre. If you are not using a VPN, a proxy, or a corporate network and still see a hosting network here, something is routing your traffic somewhere you may not have intended.
Does Phantom VPN log the results on this page?
No. This page asks our server what address your connection arrives from and shows you the answer. Nothing about the request is written to a database or a log file for this feature, and the response is marked no-store so it is not cached along the way. The ASN and location lookup is done server-side against ipinfo.io, so your browser makes no third-party request for it.
The rest of the check
No single test proves a VPN is working. Each one below closes a different hole.