IP Abuse Contact API

Detect, Defend, and Report Suspicious IP Activity

Our IP abuse contact API helps your business efficiently handle abuse reports, protect your reputation, and safeguard users. It returns data containing information belonging to the abuse contact of every IP address on the internet, empowering users to reach out and report malicious activities. Fields included in this API response are the abuse contact's email address, postal/ZIP code, city, state, country, name, network, and phone number.

Accurate & low-latency Abuse IP contact data

IPinfo specializes in providing accurate abuse contact information. Our IP abuse contact API automates the IP abuse lookups and reporting process, helping organizations handle abuse complaints quickly and efficiently. The API includes these datasets for every IP address.

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Get Started With IPinfo’s IP Abuse Contact API

Getting started with IPinfo's Abuse Contact API is quick and easy. Our developer-friendly approach ensures a smooth integration process, allowing you to harness the power of abuse contact data for IP addresses in no time.

Sign up for a free API key and explore our comprehensive documentation. This gives access to not just IP abuse contact data, but our IP geolocation API, as well. Once your free account is set up, test the API with our user-friendly console.

Ways to Use Our IP Abuse Contact API

Maintaining the integrity of your online platform is more crucial than ever. With the increasing prevalence of abuse cases such as spam, phishing, and other security concerns, having a reliable way to report and address these issues is key.

Cybersecurity threat reporting

Report cybersecurity threats of phishing, spamming, identity theft, and more to help mitigate the risk of reputational damage, data breaches, or financial loss, and assist in taking down nefarious web entities.

Network abuse prevention

Prevent network abuse with features like real-time monitoring and detection of suspicious activities before they escalate into serious threats.

Malicious IP addresses

Detect and report malicious IP addresses, like those attempting to access personal accounts, before they cause damage. Automate complaints to companies responsible for abusive IP addresses.

Compliance

Meet compliance requirements regarding reporting online abuse and report incidents quickly, protecting your business from potential fines or legal issues. Build a foundation for taking legal action against malicious IP addresses.

Fraud prevention

Enable API users to cut fraud off at the source, reporting hackers and spammers and getting them taken down before they can do more harm to you or your business.

Financial services

Identify the responsible party for network abuse at your fintech business, ensuring that incidents are quickly reported to hosting providers or ISPs. This real-time reporting reduces the risk of financial fraud, enhances compliance with regulatory requirements, and protects sensitive customer data, ultimately safeguarding your reputation and operations.

Want to leverage the power of raw datasets? Try our Downloadable Database.

Our database downloads contain the same accurate IP address information available with our APIs. These downloads are available in any format (eg. CSV, JSON, MMBD) with additional options to customize the fields.

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Made for Developers, Trusted by Enterprises

Our database is built, maintained, and supported by our in-house team of developers and engineers. These data experts are ready to troubleshoot problems, build unique use cases, and create additional enterprise solutions.

Supports Integrations

Our API integrations merge the power of IPinfo’s proprietary IP address database with other industry-leading platforms. Use your IP range data at scale with our supported integrations, such as Snowflake, Splunk, Maltego, and beyond.

Official libraries

We offer libraries for the most commonly used programming languages and frameworks. Check out our documentation to facilitate easier setup.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is abuse contact information?

Abuse contact information includes contact details (usually of the network administrator) that can be used to report IPs engaged in nefarious activities. Contacting them quickly can protect your company from malicious actors.

What’s included with abuse contact information?

This dataset includes the abuse contact's email address, postal/ZIP code, city, state, country, name, network, and phone number, giving you immediate access to contact details.

Why use the abuse contact API?

This API helps organizations automate abusive IP reporting, build a foundation for taking legal action, and fight back against harassment and identity theft. Its real-time data offers reliable information that helps you report abuse without delay, saving time and effort.

What types of businesses can benefit from an IP abuse contact API?

Any business that deals with online traffic, hosting, or networks can benefit from an IP abuse contact API, including Internet Service Providers (ISPs), web hosting companies, cybersecurity firms, e-commerce platforms, financial institutions, SaaS providers, and more.

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