Terms of Use

Acceptance

By accessing WorldIP.io (the "Service"), you agree to these Terms of Use ("Terms"). The Service is operated by Tuxxin LLC ("we", "us", "our"), a limited liability company organised in the State of Florida, United States. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use the Service. For full operator disclosure information required under German law, see our Impressum.

Data accuracy

All data on WorldIP.io is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind. IP geolocation, ownership, and ASN data are derived from third-party sources (MaxMind GeoLite2, ipinfo Lite, RIR files) and may contain inaccuracies. Specifically:

• Geolocation is approximate — typically accurate to the city level, sometimes off by hundreds of miles.
• Organization names reflect the entity that received the IP allocation, not necessarily the current operator.
• Blocklist data reflects third-party lists and may contain false positives.

Prohibited uses

You may not use WorldIP.io data for:

• Identifying, tracking, or surveilling individuals
• Making security, access control, or fraud decisions based solely on IP geolocation
• Automated scraping or bulk data extraction beyond normal browser usage
• Any unlawful purpose, including any purpose that would violate the laws of the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Germany, or any other applicable jurisdiction

Enforcement & anti-abuse

We operate a zero-tolerance policy for abuse. The Service is protected by adaptive, automated rate-limiting and an anti-abuse firewall (internally, “NullRoute”) that continuously monitors request patterns across the website and API. Clients that scrape, hammer endpoints, run unauthorised bulk automation, attempt to circumvent rate limits, quotas, or authentication, or otherwise abuse or degrade the Service for others may be throttled, blocked, or permanently banned without notice, at our sole discretion. Such measures may be applied to an IP address, network, or account, and we are under no obligation to provide notice, explanation, or reinstatement.

PTR / reverse DNS data

WorldIP.io provides PTR (reverse DNS) records as a convenience. PTR data is sourced from public DNS and may be incomplete, stale, or inaccurate. Programmatic access requires an API subscription.

Accounts and sign-in

Some features require a free account. We use Sign in with Google; we receive and store your Google email, name, and profile picture solely to operate your account (see our Privacy Policy). Signed-in accounts receive a daily allowance of reverse-DNS and full-domain searches (currently 10 per day); these limits may change. You are responsible for all activity under your account, and you must keep any feed or API keys confidential. You can permanently delete your account and all associated data at any time from your account page.

Embeddable widget

The "What's My IP" embeddable widget at /widget (and any successor URL we use to deliver it) is offered as a free, optional service. By embedding the widget on your website, application, or any other surface — or by allowing it to load for visitors of a property you operate — you agree to the following on behalf of yourself and your end users:

• Visitor IPs that load the widget are processed by WorldIP.io to perform an IP lookup and may be retained, scanned for reverse DNS, and aggregated into our public statistics. We do not collect or store anything beyond what's already available from the request — no cookies, no fingerprinting, no analytics.
• The widget is provided as-is, with no uptime guarantee, no SLA, and no warranty of any kind. We may rate-limit, modify, or discontinue the widget at any time without notice.
• You are responsible for ensuring your use of the widget complies with the privacy laws applicable to your visitors (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA, etc.), including any required disclosures or consent. If your visitors include EU/UK residents, this typically means disclosing in your own privacy notice that the widget transmits the visitor's IP address to WorldIP.io (Tuxxin LLC, United States) and the purposes for which we process it.
• The "Powered by WorldIP.io" attribution link in the widget footer must remain visible and unaltered.
• Continued use of the widget constitutes ongoing consent to these terms in their current form and to any future revisions. We may update these terms (including the widget-specific section) at any time. The updated terms take effect when posted; by leaving the widget embedded after a change, you and your visitors are deemed to consent to the revised terms. We will not provide individual change notifications — check the "Last updated" date at the top of this page if material changes are a concern for your deployment.
• If you do not agree to these terms, the only remedy is to remove the widget from your property.

Intellectual property

The site design, code, and editorial content are the property of Tuxxin LLC. The underlying IP data is sourced from MaxMind GeoLite2 (licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0), the ipinfo Lite dataset (also CC BY-SA 4.0), public RIR delegation files, public DNS PTR records, and forward-DNS data from GRIP (General Research IP) used under their free-with-attribution arrangement. Trademarks and logos referenced on the Service are the property of their respective owners.

Service availability

The Service is provided on a best-effort basis. We make no representations or warranties as to uptime, availability, or fitness for any particular purpose. We may modify, suspend, restrict access to, or discontinue the Service (in whole or in part, including specific features such as the API or widget) at any time, with or without notice, and without liability to you.

Disclaimer of warranties

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL DATA, CONTENT, AND FUNCTIONALITY PROVIDED THROUGH IT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR ACCURACY. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL TUXXIN LLC, ITS OWNERS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, OR CONTRACTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR USE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS, WHICHEVER IS GREATER.

EU/UK consumer rights. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability or right that, under applicable EU, UK, or German consumer-protection law, cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. In particular, nothing in these Terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot be limited under the mandatory provisions of the consumer-protection laws of your country of residence. Where you act as a consumer in the EU, UK, or Germany, you retain all statutory rights that cannot be waived by contract.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Tuxxin LLC and its owners, members, employees, and contractors from and against any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to (i) your use of the Service, the API, or the widget in violation of these Terms; (ii) your violation of any applicable law or the rights of any third party; or (iii) any content you submit through the Service. This indemnity does not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law, including consumer-protection laws of the EU, UK, or Germany.

Governing law

These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or relating to them are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without giving effect to its conflict-of-laws principles. The application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is expressly excluded. If you are a consumer resident in the EU, UK, or another jurisdiction whose mandatory consumer-protection law provides you with the protections of your home jurisdiction's law, those protections continue to apply to you despite this choice-of-law clause.

Binding individual arbitration; class-action waiver

Please read this section carefully — it affects your legal rights.

Except as set out below, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms ("Dispute") that is not resolved informally within thirty (30) days after written notice to contact form will be resolved exclusively through final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect. The arbitration will be conducted in Orlando, Florida, or by videoconference at the arbitrator's discretion, in the English language, by a single arbitrator. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

You and Tuxxin LLC each waive the right to a trial by jury and the right to participate in a class action, collective action, or representative action. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one party's claims and may not preside over any form of representative or class proceeding.

Carve-outs. The arbitration requirement does not apply to (a) small-claims-court actions brought on an individual basis; (b) claims for injunctive or other equitable relief to stop unauthorized use or abuse of the Service or infringement of intellectual property rights; or (c) any claim that, by mandatory law, cannot be required to be arbitrated, including consumer claims that EU, UK, or German law reserves to the courts of the consumer's country of residence. Consumers resident in the EU, UK, or Germany may bring proceedings in the courts of their country of residence and may opt out of arbitration by emailing us within 30 days of first accepting these Terms.

Venue (where arbitration does not apply)

To the extent any Dispute is not subject to arbitration under the section above, the federal or state courts located in Orange County, Florida, will have exclusive jurisdiction, and you consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts — except where mandatory consumer-protection law gives you the right to bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence, in which case those rights are preserved.

Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice. You may stop using the Service at any time. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, governing law, arbitration, and miscellaneous) will survive.

Force majeure

We are not liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labour disputes, governmental action, internet or telecommunications failures, cyberattacks, or upstream provider outages.

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that provision will be severed from these Terms and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. The class-action waiver in the arbitration section is non-severable: if it is held unenforceable, the entire arbitration section will be of no force or effect, but the rest of these Terms will remain in effect.

Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights or obligations under them, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in whole or in part at any time without notice. Any prohibited assignment is void.

No waiver

Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of that right or provision. Any waiver must be in writing to be effective.

Entire agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and (where applicable) our Impressum and API subscription terms, constitute the entire agreement between you and Tuxxin LLC regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements between us regarding the Service.

Changes

We may update these Terms at any time. Material changes will be reflected by an updated "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

Contact

Questions about these Terms: contact form or use our contact form.