Pilot

IP Whois & Geolocation API

IP lookup returning country, city, and ASN / ISP for any IPv4 / IPv6 address. (Postal code, timezone, and subdivision available as extended fields on Pro / Enterprise — see Pilot terms.)

One HTTP call at signup returns country, ASN, ISP, and a bot-likelihood score. Generous Free tier, no credit card. Keys issued manually during the pilot — we reply within 24h on workdays.

Free

€0

100,000 req/mo
/whois.json + /inspect.json
no credit card

Pro · pilot
€49 / mo
generous cap
all endpoints
extended fields on request
email support 24h

Enterprise

talk to us

custom volume
extended fields on request
SLA + status page
priority email

Total prices — no VAT is charged or shown (§ 19 UStG Kleinunternehmerregelung).

Try it now

The live playground on the Whois — IP Intelligence page calls the endpoint directly. Or from your terminal — it works before you sign up:

curl 'https://voyk.loxal.net/whois.json?queryIP=1.1.1.1'

The public playground is rate-limited per IP so anyone can sample the API. For real use, grab a Free key (100,000 req/mo, no credit card) — and the same works for /inspect.json (headers + IP + ASN fraud score), anonymously (rate-limited per IP) or with any tier's key for full quota:

curl 'https://voyk.loxal.net/inspect.json?queryIP=1.1.1.1'
# or, with a key:
curl -H 'X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY' \
  'https://voyk.loxal.net/inspect.json?queryIP=1.1.1.1'

A concrete use case — signup-risk scoring

On every user signup, call /inspect.json with the request headers and the user's IP. The response combines GeoIP (country, city, ASN, ISP), a bot-likelihood score bumped by ASN-based heuristics (data-centre and hosting networks score higher), and a request-header fingerprint. Use the combined score to route the signup: accept, email-verify, CAPTCHA, or block.

What this is not

This is IP intelligence — GeoIP, ASN, ISP, and request-header risk signals derived from the caller and the target IP.

It is not RDAP / domain-registration WHOIS. ICANN made RDAP the definitive source for gTLD registration data on 2025-01-28. We do not claim RDAP coverage, nor return registrant / registrar data. If you need domain-registration data, talk to an RDAP provider; if you need IP / geo / ASN / risk data, you're in the right place.

Pilot terms at a glance

API keys are issued manually via email during the pilot; self-serve issuance comes later.
Anonymous demo mode on /whois.json is rate-limited per IP; for real use, get a key.
Monthly cancellation. Pro pilot price holds for the first customers.
Quota is counted on a rolling monthly window per API key.
Always returned (Free + Pro): ip, country, countryCode, countryId, city, asName, asNumber. Source: DB-IP Lite (CC BY 4.0).
Extended fields (code postal, timeZone, countryState, cityId, countryStateId): present in the response shape on every tier so your client code never has to handle missing keys. Under the Free / Pro-default backend the string fields carry the sentinel "<extended field — Pro/Enterprise: info@loxal.net>" and the integer IDs come back as -1. Email info@loxal.net to switch a key onto the paid MaxMind GeoIP2 backend that fills these with real values — same response shape, just real data instead of sentinels.
Email support, 24h on workdays. 99.9% monthly availability, 10–100 ms typical response.
Governed by our Terms of Service; German law, Munich jurisdiction.
No crypto payments, no phone support yet, no incident-credit SLAs at this stage.

API reference

OpenAPI / Swagger UI — full schema, try-it-now for all endpoints
Live playground — IP lookup with prettified JSON response

Data attribution: IP Geolocation by DB-IP (DB-IP Lite database, CC BY 4.0).

Get a Free API key

100,000 requests/month, no credit card. Tell us the tier (Free or Pro) and a one-line use case. Reply-time target: 24h on workdays.

Request a Free key

Opens your mail client to info@loxal.net.