Map any IP to its hosting provider to detect cloud and data-centre traffic. Identify the provider name and domain to distinguish automated infrastructure from real users.
IP Trust maps any IP to its hosting provider, telling you whether an IP belongs to a cloud or hosting infrastructure, and identifies the provider by name and domain.
| JSON Field | Description | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| { | ||
| "hosting": { | ||
| "detected": true, | Whether the IP belongs to a known hosting or cloud infrastructure provider. | Plus Premium |
| "domain": "www.microsoft.com", | optional Website domain of the hosting provider. | Plus Premium |
| "name": "Microsoft Limited" | optional Name of the hosting or cloud provider operating at this IP. | Plus Premium |
| } | ||
| } |
| Field | Value | Description | Database Package |
|---|---|---|---|
| hosting | true | Whether the IP belongs to a known hosting or cloud infrastructure provider. | Hosting & Company |
| hosting_domain | www.microsoft.com | Website domain of the hosting provider. | Hosting & Company |
| hosting_name | Microsoft Limited | Name of the hosting or cloud provider operating at this IP. | Hosting & Company |
Separate genuine user traffic from automated requests originating in data centres and cloud platforms.
The majority of automated abuse originates from hosting infrastructure. Detect data-centre traffic and apply stricter rate limits, CAPTCHA challenges, or blocks to protect your platform from scraping, credential stuffing, and fake account creation.
Filter out impressions and clicks that originate from cloud servers rather than real users. Hosting-sourced traffic is a primary indicator of click farms and ad fraud operations that inflate metrics and drain ad budgets.
Segment your analytics by traffic source to understand what percentage of visitors are real users versus data-centre traffic. Identify which hosting providers are driving non-human traffic to your platform.
As part of Friendly Captcha, IP Trust hosting detection data has been helping to protect the internet from bots since 2020.
For every IP range we identify the owning company, source their domain, and then use text classification to determine the company type. This approach allows us to cover major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, and OVH, as well as thousands of smaller hosting providers, VPS services, and colocation facilities worldwide.
Every detected hosting IP includes the provider name and domain where available. Know exactly which cloud platform or hosting company a request originates from, so you can make nuanced decisions rather than blocking all data-centre traffic.
Cloud providers constantly add and reallocate IP ranges. Our hosting database is updated daily using RIR records, BGP data, and active scanning to ensure new ranges are detected quickly and decommissioned ranges are removed.
Choose the integration model that works best for your use case.
| Network | Provider Name | Domain |
|---|---|---|
| 5.39.9.0/30 | OVH BV | us.ovhcloud.com |
| 5.104.88.0/21 | Arcade Solutions AG | www.arcade.ch |
| 5.180.136.0/23 | FIRST SERVER LIMITED | ntx.ru |
| 5.196.113.64/26 | OVH SAS | www.ovhcloud.com |
| 5.254.23.0/27 | Voxility GmbH | www.voxility.com |
Each lookup tells you whether the IP belongs to a known hosting or cloud provider, along with the provider's name and domain where available. For example, an IP from AWS would return the provider name "Amazon.com, Inc." and the domain "aws.amazon.com", letting you make informed decisions about how to handle that traffic.
IP Trust identifies IP ranges belonging to major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OVH, as well as hundreds of smaller hosting providers, VPS services, and colocation facilities worldwide. The database covers the long tail of hosting infrastructure, not just the big names.
The majority of automated abuse - bots, scrapers, credential stuffing, and click fraud - originates from hosting infrastructure rather than residential ISPs. Mapping an IP to its hosting provider lets you apply stricter rules to data-centre traffic while allowing legitimate users through, significantly reducing false positives compared to blanket blocking.
Yes. IP to hosting provider data is included in the Hosting & Company database package, available in MMDB, CSV, JSON, and Parquet formats. Downloading the database lets you run hosting detection locally with zero external API calls and unlimited volume. See our database downloads page for details.
The IP to hosting provider database is updated daily. Cloud providers constantly add, reallocate, and decommission IP ranges, so daily updates using RIR records, BGP data, and active scanning ensure new ranges are detected quickly and stale entries are removed.