About IPly
A privacy-focused IP address lookup tool built for developers, network administrators, and anyone who wants clear network diagnostics with honest disclosure about analytics, enrichment, and retention.
How It Works
Server-Side Detection
When you visit IPly, our edge servers immediately detect your IP address from the incoming HTTP request. This happens server-side before the page even loads in your browser.
IP Geolocation
We combine Vercel request metadata with automatic ipwho.is enrichment to determine approximate location, ISP, and ASN information for the IP being looked up.
Our Privacy Commitment
Minimal Retention
We minimize retention and do not persist raw visitor IPs in application-controlled storage as part of normal product behavior.
Aggregate Analytics
We use Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights for aggregate product metrics.
Transparent Third Parties
When IP enrichment runs, the IP being looked up is sent to ipwho.is to retrieve ISP, ASN, and location metadata.
Some transient operational processing may still occur for security, abuse prevention, hosting, and caching. This can include short-lived hashed rate-limit identifiers in app-controlled storage.
Data Sources
The information displayed about your IP address comes from Vercel request metadata, public routing data, and automatic ipwho.is enrichment for supported lookup paths.
- IP Geolocation Databases: Publicly available databases that map IP ranges to geographic locations based on ISP registrations.
- ASN Data: Autonomous System Numbers from regional internet registries (RIRs) like ARIN, RIPE, and APNIC.
- ISP Information: Derived from WHOIS data and routing information maintained by internet service providers.
Questions or feedback? Reach us at admin@iply.dev