Topics Glossary About Privacy Terms Free IP Tools →
Jan 1, 0001

Terms of Service

Last updated: April 5, 2026

These are the terms for using whatismyip.wiki. We wrote them in plain language because nobody benefits from legal documents that require a law degree to parse. The goal is simple: set reasonable expectations for both sides, protect the content we’ve worked hard to create, and establish the usual legal safeguards that every website needs.

If you’re using this site, you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, well, you probably won’t keep reading anyway, so that sort of solves itself.

What This Site Is

whatismyip.wiki is a free, educational website about networking and internet technology. We publish articles, reference guides, and a glossary covering topics like IP addresses, DNS, VPNs, security, protocols, and internet infrastructure.

We’re not providing professional advice. We’re not a consulting firm. We’re not certified networking instructors (though we know our stuff). The content on this site is for educational purposes. If you’re making critical infrastructure decisions for a Fortune 500 company, maybe talk to an actual network engineer instead of relying solely on a wiki. We won’t be offended.

That said, we take accuracy seriously. Every article is researched and fact-checked. But technology changes, standards evolve, and despite our best efforts, mistakes can slip through. If you find one, tell us and we’ll fix it.

Using Our Content

What You Can Do

You’re free to:

  • Read everything on this site (obviously)
  • Share links to our articles anywhere you want
  • Reference our content in your own work, blog posts, videos, courses, or documentation
  • Quote reasonable excerpts with attribution
  • Use our articles for personal learning or teaching
  • Print articles for personal reference

You don’t need to ask permission for any of the above. Just use common sense and give credit where it’s appropriate.

What You Can’t Do

Please don’t:

  • Copy entire articles and republish them on your own site (that’s plagiarism and it’s also just rude)
  • Scrape our entire site and repost it somewhere else
  • Remove attribution or authorship from our content
  • Frame our site within your site to make it look like your content
  • Use our content to train AI models without permission (we have specific policies for AI crawlers in our robots.txt)
  • Modify our content and present it as though we wrote the modified version
  • Impersonate whatismyip.wiki or claim affiliation with us

If you want to do something with our content that isn’t covered above, just ask. We’re reasonable people and will probably say yes if your use case is legitimate.

AI and Machine Learning

We explicitly allow AI search crawlers to index our content for the purpose of answering user queries and providing citations (see our robots.txt for the full list of allowed crawlers). We want AI assistants to reference our content when users ask networking questions.

However, we do not broadly grant permission to use our content as training data for large language models. There’s a difference between “cite us when answering questions” and “absorb our writing to train your next model.” If you’re operating an AI system and want to discuss content licensing, reach out to us.

Our articles contain links to external websites, including:

  • whatismyip.technology (our tools site)
  • whatismyip.codes (our API documentation)
  • Technical reference sites (RFCs, standards documents)
  • Relevant third-party resources

We link to external content for educational purposes. A link doesn’t mean we endorse the linked site, their products, their privacy practices, or their opinion on pineapple pizza. We try to link to reputable sources, but websites change over time and we can’t monitor every external link continuously.

If you find a broken or inappropriate link on our site, let us know and we’ll fix or remove it.

No Warranties

Here’s the legally necessary part that essentially says “this is a free website and we can’t guarantee everything will be perfect at all times”:

This site is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. We don’t guarantee that:

  • The site will be available 24/7 without interruption (servers need maintenance, hardware fails, solar flares happen)
  • All content is perfectly accurate at any given moment (we’re thorough but human)
  • The site will meet your specific requirements
  • The technical information will still be current by the time you read it (technology moves fast)
  • Our servers won’t be abducted by aliens (we have contingency plans, but they’re untested)

We do our best to keep everything accurate, current, and available. But we’re a small team running a free educational resource, not a team of hundreds with 99.99% uptime SLAs.

Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, whatismyip.wiki, its creators, contributors, and hosting providers shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages resulting from your use of this site.

In plain English: if you read our article about subnetting, misconfigure your network based on a misunderstanding, and your company’s servers go down, that’s not our fault. We provide educational content. How you apply it is your responsibility. Always verify critical configurations independently, preferably with someone who gets paid to know this stuff.

Similarly, we’re not liable for:

  • Decisions you make based on our content
  • Third-party sites you visit through our links
  • Temporary unavailability of our site
  • Anything beyond our reasonable control

This isn’t us trying to be difficult. It’s standard legal protection that every website needs, and we’d rather be upfront about it than hide it in paragraph 73.

Acceptable Use

Don’t use our site to:

  • Launch attacks against our infrastructure (DDoS, SQL injection, XSS, or other attack vectors). This would be both illegal and ironic given our articles about these exact topics.
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our server or systems
  • Scrape our site at a rate that impacts performance for other users
  • Distribute malware through any interaction with our site
  • Use our site or content for illegal purposes
  • Misrepresent your identity or affiliation when contacting us

We hope none of this needs to be said, but lawyers exist for a reason.

Intellectual Property

All original content on whatismyip.wiki (articles, design, illustrations, CSS, HTML templates) is owned by whatismyip.wiki. The content is created by our team and is protected by copyright.

Some elements of our site use open-source components:

  • Hugo (Apache 2.0 license) for site generation
  • Inter typeface (SIL Open Font License)
  • JetBrains Mono typeface (SIL Open Font License)
  • Feather Icons (MIT license) for inline SVG icons

We respect the licenses of all open-source software we use and give proper attribution as required.

Modifications to These Terms

We may update these terms from time to time. When we do, we’ll update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. We won’t make material changes without notice, and we won’t retroactively apply restrictive terms to content you’ve already accessed.

If we ever make significant changes to these terms (like adding user accounts, selling products, or changing our content licensing model), we’ll make it obvious. You shouldn’t need to re-read these terms every week to catch a sneaky edit. That’s not how we operate.

Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction where whatismyip.wiki is operated. Any disputes (though we sincerely hope there won’t be any, because what is there to dispute about a free wiki?) will be resolved under applicable local laws.

Termination

We reserve the right to block access to our site for users who violate these terms. Given that we don’t have user accounts, “blocking access” essentially means IP banning, which is pretty hard to enforce and not something we anticipate needing to do.

If we do block someone’s access, it’ll be because they were attacking our infrastructure or doing something genuinely harmful, not because they disagreed with our take on whether WireGuard is better than OpenVPN.

Severability

If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable under applicable law, the rest of the terms remain in effect. Legal boilerplate, but important boilerplate.

The Honest Summary

This is a free educational website about networking. Read it, learn from it, share it, reference it. Don’t steal entire articles or attack our servers. We’re not responsible if you misapply something you learned here. We own our content but we’re pretty generous about letting people reference it.

That’s really all these terms come down to. The rest is legal scaffolding that every website needs, written with as much clarity and honesty as we could manage.

If you’ve actually read this far, you’re a rare breed and we respect that.