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

I hope they give then to a charity/charitable person. I proposed to continue the service ad free, for free to them. Hopefully they accept my proposal. It would be such a shame for the service to become "enshittified" by some greedy company

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

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Post by lxgr » Tue, Mar 04, 2025, 4:18 PM UTC

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 public good in a similar way as pool.ntp.org.

Checking for generic Internet connectivity (i.e. not only having an IP address, but being able to reach public sites, these sites being non-cached, not-captive-portaled etc.) seems like a problem that too many apps, scripts, and devices are solving again and again.

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

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Post by lxgr » Tue, Mar 04, 2025, 4:20 PM UTC

forgotpwd16 wrote: post #2

Were those addresses used for anything or simple domain squatting?

They were great memorable and ad-free sites that simply showed you your own (or your NAT's) public IP, as seen by the HTTP server.