Editorial & Corrections Policy
How the CheckPublicIP Team researches, writes, and checks the guides and tools on this site — and how to tell us when we get something wrong.
Our goal: accurate, useful, and honest
Networking is full of half-truths that get copied from site to site ("your IP reveals your home address", "IPv6 is automatically more secure"). We try to do better: explain things plainly, and be precise about what is actually true, what is a common misconception, and where the limits are.
How content is created
Our articles and tool explanations are researched and drafted with the help of AI writing tools, then edited and fact-checked by the CheckPublicIP Team. We are transparent about this: we do not claim that a named human expert personally authored or peer-reviewed each page. What we do claim is that every substantive technical statement is checked against authoritative primary sources before publishing.
How we check technical claims
- Protocol and addressing facts are verified against IETF RFCs (rfc-editor.org) — for example RFC 1918 (private address ranges), RFC 6598 (CGNAT shared address space), and RFC 8200 / RFC 4291 (IPv6).
- Address-allocation and special-use claims are checked against the relevant IANA registries.
- Browser and web-platform behavior (WebRTC, DNS-over-HTTPS, geolocation) is checked against MDN Web Docs and official browser/vendor documentation.
- We link these primary sources directly on the relevant pages so you can verify any claim yourself.
Tools reflect real results
Every diagnostic tool on this site reports genuine data from your own connection or a real lookup — we never show fabricated results. Where a tool can only estimate (IP geolocation) or infer (our VPN test is a heuristic, not proof), we say so plainly on the page.
Corrections
If you find an error — a wrong fact, a broken link, an outdated figure — please email
contact@checkpublicip.com with the page and the
problem. We review corrections promptly, fix confirmed errors, and update the "Updated" date on
the affected page. Material corrections to an article are reflected in its dateModified.
Independence and funding
CheckPublicIP.com is independent and funded by advertising. Advertising never determines the content or conclusions of our guides. We do not accept payment to alter factual information.