IP Animals 🦁
The internet's IP zoo. 🐾 Every animal that's ever shown you your IP address, gathered in one pond, pasture, jungle and ocean.
🏆 The Legendaries
The hall of fame — the animals everyone knows, the ones that have been showing strangers their IP addresses since before it was cool.
🐦 The Aviary — Birds
Feathered, fast, and surprisingly technical. The birds love a dedicated IPv4/IPv6 endpoint.
🚜 The Barnyard — Farm Animals
Salt of the earth. Clean, dependable, privacy-minded, and never afraid of a command line.
🐱 The Pets — Cats & Dogs
The internet's favourite animals, naturally, also check your IP. Some fetch, some judge you.
🌊 The Aquarium — Sea & Water Animals
From the tide pools to the deep. They surface just long enough to tell you your WAN address.
🦄 The Cryptids — Weird, Rare & Wonderful
Foxes, llamas, lemurs, bears and at least one unicorn. The exotic wing of the zoo.
🐾 Why a whole zoo?
Biodiversity is the point
A single IP checker is a utility. Dozens of them, each with its own animal, is a folk tradition. The variety is what makes it wonderful: the web is richer with a duck and a whale and a lemur all doing the same humble job differently.
Hard to find on your own
These sites are scattered across the web with no central list. Half the fun is discovering one exists at all. The zoo gathers them in one place, so you can wander the whole collection in an afternoon instead of stumbling on them by accident over years.
It's a love letter to the small web
These are single-purpose, no-login, no-tracking-circus, just-tell-me-the-number sites. They're the small web at its best. Celebrating them is celebrating an internet built by people for the fun of it.
Every animal deserves a home
New critters hatch all the time. As long as someone, somewhere, registers an animal domain to show you your IP, there should be a zoo willing to give it an enclosure and a sign with its name on it.
🧑💻 Adopt-an-Animal — help grow the zoo
IP Animals is open and built for tinkerers. The entire menagerie lives in
a single, friendly data file — animals.js — with no build step
and no framework in the way.
- 🔗 Spotted a broken link or an animal that's gone dark? Update its
url(or drop the entry) and open a PR. - 🐣 Run an animal IP site, or know one we're missing? Add an object to
animals.js— emoji, domain, habitat, a fun blurb — and send it our way. The zoo accepts all species. - 🛠️ Want to improve the enclosure itself? The site is plain HTML, CSS and vanilla JS. Fork it, poke at it, make it weirder.