What is my IP?

This past week­end I found a fun domain name for a project: ipaddr.es. Yeah, it is miss­ing an “s” at the end, but I think it is still a fun domain.

So I threw up a “what is my IP” style page and am hav­ing some fun with it.

What makes IP Addr.es bet­ter than the com­pe­ti­tion? A few things:

• The IP address is the pri­mary ele­ment on the page, located in a big, modern-looking green box.
• The IP address is included in the page title. I’m sur­prised how few “What is my IP” sites do this…
• You can get your pri­vate IP. I only found one other site that does this.
• Each page has a “How does this page work?” link at the bot­tom that explains what you need to do to copy me. For exam­ple, the pri­vate IP “how does it work” page includes the source to the Java applet I am using, and explains how to use it.

It has been up less than a week so it isn’t as feature-packed as I hope to get it, but it is already bring­ing in some ad rev­enue, which is always a good encour­age­ment to keep adding fea­tures. I have a few ideas of basic things to add:

• Basic inter­net tools (ping, trace, reverse DNS, host­name resolver)
• DNS record lookup
• Spam IP black­list check
• Domain WHOIS (maybe.. these tend to get abused by spammers..)
• Basic encode/decode fea­tures (URL, base64)
• Maybe some basic bin/dex/hex converters..

Any­ways, what do you think? Check it out at IP Addr.es and let me know!