Use TrustIP responsibly
Rules and limitations for using the TrustIP diagnostic service.
Key points
- Use the service only for lawful and authorized purposes
- Do not overload, scrape, bypass limits, or interfere with providers
- Do not use reports to harass or falsely accuse a person
- Independently verify important conclusions
- Expect results and availability to change over time
How to use this information
Confirm network ownership, observation time, and evidence sources before interpreting a classification or risk summary. Providers can disagree because they use different coverage, thresholds, and update schedules.
Match the result to the real symptom. Website reachability, streaming region errors, email rejection, account challenges, and wrong geolocation require different evidence. Change one variable at a time so the outcome remains reproducible.
Important limitations
An IP address can be shared, dynamically assigned, or recycled. Geolocation estimates the network exit, and VPN or residential-proxy detection can produce false positives and false negatives.
TrustIP does not log in to third-party accounts and cannot guarantee that a platform will accept or reject an address. Use the report to decide what to verify next, not as the sole basis for a high-impact decision about a person.