Finding the Owner of an IP Address

✅ While you can't find the specific owner of an IP address, there are a few tools to see what IP-related information you can get.

It’s not possible to find out who is using a specific IP address without the aid of law enforcement. There are services, including whois, reverse DNS, Geo-IP, and IP-sharing lookups, that can provide some information about an IP address. To go beyond that point, you need the assistance of the ISP owning the IP address, and to get that, you likely need law enforcement or the courts to get them to release otherwise private information.


Chapters
0:00 Find an IP Address
0:16 The question
0:54 Who cares?
1:50 Whois ARIN
2:26 The return
2:56 Getting law enforcement
3:38 Reverse DNS
6:01 Geo-IP

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[askleonotenboom]

What you can find, how to find it, and what you can and can’t do with it.

[glasslinger]

Interesting, but mainly makes me feel safer.

[ellenearth]

Leo I opened a FB account to reach my daughter.And it was acting very strange I would delete a post it would come back up.There was an album of my personal photos at the top I didn't mak

[XionGaming]

Is it possible to do this with a iPhone?

[danokie]

it is possible to trace some one down to there city with an ip but you cant go any further. if they lived in a small town it would still show the city that is closest to the person

[RCohle]

A person using a VPN+TOR would complicate matters even for law enforcement.

[Kw_Torres]

I’ve had my identity stolen, and I only have their ip address

[damongraham]

So when using some of the tools within kali Linux I can usually find out who the person is. Are you talking about a specific scenario where you can't or what?

[cchelios]

I’ve seen a video of someone playing a video game online but they start being racially abused, the guy being abused picks his phone up and 10 minutes later he knows the guys real name address and phone number how is that even possible?

[charad]

That makes plenty of sense but is a shame, I have been hacked and need to know as they could be dangerous and don't want to envolve police as they probably won't care, I have ip, general possible area, and phone type they use. Wish me luck with the cops, they're my last hope T-T

[LuStboost]

This can’t be entirely true. If this is the case, how does swatting happen?

[hcwhlkg]

The average person can't, so who can be able to get my name and exact location through my IP address? Foreign obsessive and dictator government for example? Thanks.

[Patrick_Bateman____]

I care. Some moron keeps trying to login to my email. They can’t because of my 2FA but I wish I could find and call them lol

[patrickrosquist]

I was Playing League of Legends with a friend of mine, and one of the players on the other team, commented "how's it going in Denmark, ('my friends full name')? ", how could that be explained?

[Orixbby]

someone claiming to be my bank called me, scammed all my money from my bank transferred all my money, they created a new bank account with the same bank under my name, they sent me phony emails from “my bank” can they trace what location these changes were made online? i want to find out who did this to me and win my they also updated my password on their end :(

[YuuyaKaoriCouple]

I care who owns the IP address for 1 reason, to stop hacking other accounts

[YuuyaKaoriCouple]

I want to find who hacked my facebook account

[no-delg]

Someone stole my itune gift card and my mom itune account