You have to find the IP address before you can locate them. There you have to search now. This is sometimes not so easy, and you will find several eligible IP addresses. It helps, for example, to search for keywords such as permitted sender and to try the IP address next to it. Perfect my ip tracking is there.

It gets more difficult if you do not have any data in which you can find out an IP address. For example, if someone left a bad comment in a guestbook or forum that you cannot access. The owner of this forum usually gets to the IP address without any problems and often enough to an e-mail address. If it is real insults, then you can only exhaust the legal means and make a complaint. And that only makes sense if the operator of the forum sits in his own country. But sometimes you’re lucky, and the IP address of the offender is right at his post.

An IP location with geolocation

Often it is enough if you can reasonably narrow down, where someone lives, whose IP I found. But one thing in advance: The only one who can establish a clear connection between an IP address and an Internet connection to an apartment, is the provider. And the only ones who are allowed to request such a unique address assignment are the legal organs of a country. And that does not last long, because the provider may not store such data permanently. So if you find an insulting statement in an internet forum or guestbook and also an IP number by chance, then this entry must not be too old if you want to prosecute it.

You can locate an IP and assign it relatively easily to a target area, but that’s about it.

What is always possible, however, is the chance to find the approximate location of an IP – at least reasonably. Namely, there are extensive databases that can assign IP ranges of different providers to their distribution areas. And these databases use different Internet providers to show us where an “IP owner” lives or works. However, one has to keep in mind: The smaller the location, the harder it is to locate. Sometimes an IP range includes just a handful of small places, and then you only know roughly where the cause is located.

You can try this out, e.g. with the IP localization. There simply enter an IP address and click on Lookup, immediately the location is displayed, which is behind this IP. Sometimes even the postal code can be seen and even information about which company the IP has rented. But usually ends here the big chase, because every 24 hours you get in your country name as a normal Internet customer a new IP and even intensive Google research would then find someone who had this IP a few days earlier or later in the worst case.

If you generally want to know something more about an IP, then you can make a whois request. There are various sites, such as WhoISrequest, which give me uncomplicated information. Since then you can also see, for example, who owns the IP of Wikipedia and which server it uses.