What does an IP country of Germany mean?
A database placed the address in Germany. On Deutsche Telekom’s DS-Lite lines the IPv4 is shared and the IPv6 prefix is the one that identifies the connection.
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IP addresses in Germany
What a geolocation country of Germany tends to mean, and which networks sit behind it.
Germany is a RIPE NCC country, and the retail ASNs are distinctive enough that the country code is the less interesting field. Deutsche Telekom is AS3320, Vodafone Germany AS3209, and O2/Telefónica AS6805. Unitymedia’s old footprint is Vodafone’s now, so a “Unitymedia” memory and a Vodafone ASN are not a contradiction.
Telekom’s consumer design is the part that trips people up. DS-Lite gives the line a native IPv6 prefix and puts IPv4 behind carrier-grade NAT. The public IPv4 on this site is then shared, while the IPv6 prefix is the stable handle. A geolocation city in Germany is often roughly right at Bundesland scale and is still not an address. If only the IPv4 city looks wrong, check whether you are comparing a shared DS-Lite address with a database pin that was never going to be a house.
The regional registry is RIPE NCC. What is my IP address · IP location wrong?
Further reading: Cloudflare Radar.
Questions
Which networks are common in Germany?
Deutsche Telekom AS3320, Vodafone AS3209, and O2/Telefónica AS6805 cover a large part of the retail market. The ASN on the connection is the one to read. The brand on an old bill can be a network Vodafone absorbed.