Can someone find out what your IP address is if you visit their website?

Question

Can someone find out what your IP address is if you visit their website? Or can they find out who you are? (without the use of malware or other malicious software.)

Answer 1

Sure. These days everything is logged and every webmaster of server administrator have in any moment access to all information's about visitors.

To get better impression what they can find about visitors check these professional IP address trackers:

http://www.ipaddresslocation.org

http://www.find-ip-address.org



It is amazing how many information's is possible to get from one simple visits.

Answer 2

Get a No Cost Background Check Scan at https://bitly.im/aO2Rj



Its a sensible way to start. The site allows you to do a no cost scan simply to find out if any sort of data is in existence. A smaller analysis is done without cost. To get a detailed report its a modest payment.



You may not realize how many good reasons there are to try and find out more about the people around you. After all, whether you're talking about new friends, employees, doctors, caretakers for elderly family members, or even significant others, you, as a citizen, have a right to know whether the people you surround yourself with are who they say they are. This goes double in any situation that involves your children, which not only includes teachers and babysitters, but also scout masters, little league coaches and others. Bottom line, if you want to find out more about someone, you should perform a background check.

Answer 3

Every single website you visit not only "finds out" your IP but it records it and stores in their servers. They can't find out who you are just from your IP address alone, but it can give them geographic information right down to the specific town you are in.



But, since everything you do on the website you visit is collected along with your IP address, it is possible for someone to basically find out everything they need to. Entering a name here, a birth date there, and next thing you know they have found everything they need to know to steal your identity.



Also, everything you do online is tracked and recorded to your IP. This means that companies and search engines can build a profile about your surfing habits and target you with spam or advertisements.

Answer 4

IP addresses can identify you down to a town close to where you are depending on your ISP. For example, is someone gets your IP address (from you visiting a web site for example), they can perform a reverse lookup on that address and find something called a host name.



If you look at, this is a random IP, 24.12.12.12 you will see the host name is: c-24-12-12-12.hsd1.il.comcast.net.



This shows that the user of that IP is using comcast and is probably in Illinois (given by the IL).



The UK ISPs appear to get you closer to the end user, with the broadband head ends actually giving small town names.



If you have a static IP address, one that doesn't change a lot, then Google comes in handy. Try searching for your IP address and see what comes up. If a forum you post to displays your username and IP on a post then you have got a step closer to the person as you now have a handle as well as an IP address......search engines, social networking sites etc can always trip you up thanks to a few postings you made a few months ago!



To find what your current IP address is, use sites such as http://whatismyip.com or http://displaymyip.info



Proxies will help you cover your tracks a bit but some may also send information about your IP address as well as the proxy IP.



Hope that helps!

Answer 5

Yes, you can visit http://www.ip2location.com and they will show you a lot of information about yourself including IP address.

Answer 6

When you visit a website, your web browser (client) will talk to there web server, the web client and web server talks to each other, the client asks for the web page, and maybe send some CGI commands to it, the server sends back a web browser (client)



The IP address of the server is usually grabbed when you type in letters into the address bar, your web browser asks you DNS (Domain Name Server) for the IP address, after this your IP address starts talking to the server



The server needs to know where to send the web page and its contents to, so it requires some sort of IP, at least something that can be sent back to you



people could be sniffing packets (watching data that goes back and forth between that server) but to do that on an internet connection is a bit more complicated then just snuffing on your local network



I wouldn't worry too much, unless your looking at child porn, but your IP address is needed so your computer can be a part of the internet

Answer 7

Of course.Unless your behind a router.You could use proxies to deal with that problem.I could get your ip just by me sending you a file just big enough to gain the time to run one command at command prompt. -n shows what is connecting to your pc.

Answer 8

Yes, there are plenty of websites that don't even show you. Some will show you at checkout when your buying online to let you know their security measures. Alot of websites wanna register your computer so they know who's doing dirt. Just go to trusted websites and dont do dirt, lol. Good luck

Answer 9

Yes, a website can collect your IP address without even knowing.