Your Public IP Address is

A Public IP address is assigned by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and is globally unique and accessible across the entire public internet. In contrast, a Private IP address (such as 192.168.1.10 or 10.0.0.5) is assigned by your local Wi-Fi router via DHCP under RFC 1918 to distinguish devices within your local area network (LAN). Your router performs Network Address Translation (NAT) to bridge traffic between your local devices and the global web.

No. IP geolocation only maps an IP address to the approximate city, region, postal code, and ISP routing hub (Point of Presence). It does not contain your legal name, physical street address, or apartment number. Only your Internet Service Provider holds customer identity records matching IP lease histories, which are only accessible under legal subpoena or court order.

Most consumer and mobile internet service providers issue Dynamic IP addresses using DHCP lease timers to efficiently manage their pool of IPv4 addresses. Your IP address may change when your modem restarts, during network topology maintenance, or when the lease expires. Dedicated servers, cloud instances, and corporate networks typically purchase Static IP addresses that remain permanently fixed.

WebRTC is an open web standard enabling real-time audio, video, and P2P communication in browsers. To establish direct connections through firewalls and NATs, WebRTC sends STUN (Session Traversal Utilities for NAT) requests that can bypass active VPN tunnels or proxy software, inadvertently leaking your real ISP IP or internal LAN addresses. You can prevent WebRTC leaks by disabling WebRTC in browser flags or utilizing trusted privacy extensions.

wmip.dev leverages dual-stack network architecture. Our client-side diagnostics initiate asynchronous requests to dedicated dual-stack, IPv4-only, and IPv6-only DNS endpoints. If your ISP, home router, and client operating system support IPv6, wmip.dev immediately identifies both addresses and verifies your dual-stack connectivity status.

An ASN (Autonomous System Number) is a globally unique identifier assigned to large autonomous networks—such as telecom carriers, cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud), and university backbones. ASNs use the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to broadcast routing policies and exchange data packets across global internet exchange points (IXPs).

Bogon IPs are IP addresses and prefixes that should not be routable on the public internet. They include unallocated address space, private RFC 1918 ranges, loopback (127.0.0.0/8), and carrier-grade NAT (100.64.0.0/10). Legitimate public internet packets should never originate from or route to Bogon addresses; finding one on a public interface usually indicates spoofing or misconfiguration.

You can quickly fetch your plain text public IP address directly from your terminal using our lightweight API: `curl https://wmip.dev/api/raw` or structured JSON with `curl https://wmip.dev/api/json`.