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Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Post by evulhotdog »

lxgr wrote: post #9

Oh no, this has been my go-to site for connectivity tests (as example.com seems to be cached fairly aggressively by my browsers and that has misled me in the past). Ad-free, minimal, does exactly what it needs to and nothing more. Rest in peace! Edit: All these (great and much appreciated!) responses of alternatives are making me wonder if this should in fact be a standardized service that could then be offered as a…

ip.guide is also a great one. Provides a json payload with relevant information. I have no affiliation with it, just happy user!

Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Post by f30e3dfed1c9 »

lemcoe9 wrote: post #79

ip4.me and related websites actually inspired me to create a more-whimsical version of the website, which I call ipkitten.com. Not only do you get your IP address, User Agent, and approximate geolocation, but you also get a kitten GIF! It also works from the command line, like this: $ curl ipkitten.com 4.2.2.2 I am sure that Kevin has saved engineers and other IT people tons of headache and time with his simple, help…

I like that this prints the IP address followed by a newline. some similar services don't and it's sort of annoying.

Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

#83

Post by reincoder »

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #50
reincoder wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are experimenting with some design choices as we try to highlight all the IP metadata we have and move towards being an "internet data" company instead of just an IP location company. I highly recommend you check out the page: https://ipinfo.io/myip I understand the data we have for your IP address is not front and center anymore. We have gone through several iterations of designs for our homepage, so if you have…

"I don’t want anyone to see our address and opening hours without also reading through our values, our mission statement, and board of directors"

Our priority is always the developer experience and I apologize for the friction you are seeing here.

The issue is that we are truly in a unique space when it comes to internet data. We have gone through several iterations on how to present the full extent of data and not just your public IP address.

If you are a regular user of our service, you know that we have a very open access approach to our data. We provide most of our data for free through our website, we have a generous API, and we have a fully accurate open access licensed database. We also have more free services to be released!

Due to the open data approach, developers appreciate us. We are not trying to create any barriers or friction here, but we are trying to find a balance. If you have any suggestions that can encourage users to explore our data while simultaneously providing everyone with a frictionless experience with our data, please let me know.

Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Post by Aeolun »

reincoder wrote: post #83
rrr_oh_man wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I don’t want anyone to see our address and opening hours without also reading through our values, our mission statement, and board of directors"

Our priority is always the developer experience and I apologize for the friction you are seeing here. The issue is that we are truly in a unique space when it comes to internet data. We have gone through several iterations on how to present the full extent of data and not just your public IP address. If you are a regular user of our service, you know that we have a very open access approach to our data. We provide mo…

> The issue is that we are truly in a unique space when it comes to internet data.

You serve people their IP address. There’s tens of sites doing the same in this very thread.

Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

reincoder wrote: post #83
rrr_oh_man wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I don’t want anyone to see our address and opening hours without also reading through our values, our mission statement, and board of directors"

Our priority is always the developer experience and I apologize for the friction you are seeing here. The issue is that we are truly in a unique space when it comes to internet data. We have gone through several iterations on how to present the full extent of data and not just your public IP address. If you are a regular user of our service, you know that we have a very open access approach to our data. We provide mo…

Hello, AT&T.

Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

#87

Post by matteocontrini »

HeatrayEnjoyer wrote: post #64
PhilipRoman wrote: post #13

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ifconfig.me is a similar service which I often use. It has a nice feature that if you do "curl ifconfig.me", you'll get only a string with the ip address, no markup.

This site is behind cloudflare and has captcha-blocked my queries more than once.

ifconfig.me is not behind Cloudflare, at least currently.

Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Post by venusenvy47 »

PhilipRoman wrote: post #13
lxgr wrote: post #9

Oh no, this has been my go-to site for connectivity tests (as example.com seems to be cached fairly aggressively by my browsers and that has misled me in the past). Ad-free, minimal, does exactly what it needs to and nothing more. Rest in peace! Edit: All these (great and much appreciated!) responses of alternatives are making me wonder if this should in fact be a standardized service that could then be offered as a…

ifconfig.me is a similar service which I often use. It has a nice feature that if you do "curl ifconfig.me", you'll get only a string with the ip address, no markup.

On a Reddit post, someone mentioned ip.wtf that they created as a similar service. Aside from using it in a browser, it also provides a single IP address with curl ip.wtf, with less typing. I also like getting more information by using this: curl --json "" ip.wtf

Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Post by venusenvy47 »

lxgr wrote: post #49
PhilipRoman wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ifconfig.me is a similar service which I often use. It has a nice feature that if you do "curl ifconfig.me", you'll get only a string with the ip address, no markup.

Me too, but that's a whopping 5 characters more. Think of all the extra keyboard wear! I do like the curl-ability of that one a lot, though, and on my own computer I can just configure an alias or shell function for it :)

Try "curl ip.wtf" to save your keyboard :)

Re: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

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Post by whizzter »

silverquiet wrote: post #16

> The Kevin M Loch Estate will be shutting down Kevin's websites in the near future (4/1/2025). All respect to the deceased, but there's always at least a tiny part of me that is suspicious of anything taking place on April 1.

Could simply be that a bunch of invoices/billing are connected to months and they don't want to pay beyond the current month (to make sure they get their money for the domains).
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