can someone find out who i am by the IP adderesss?

Answer 1

Who can get the information depends on a lot of factors, but it always possible for the ISP to get it so if there is a legal situation, it will be known!

To get back to the factors, it especially depends on...
- if you post messages on the internet, and where
- if emails you send or receive are accessible to search engines
- the kind of chat programs you use if you do
- if your IP changes through time, this depends on your ISP's rules but most residential customers get a dynamic IP for security reasons as well as to stop them from hosting servers

Answer 2

Maybe.
Using a program called whois, it is possible to tell who owns a certain IP address. In most cases though, that will only lead to your IP provider.
To find out who a particular user is, one would need to know what IP address you were using at a particular time, and then your service provider would have to reslove that information and tell the person who is asking. Usually they only do this under warrant from the government.
If you aren't running proper firewall software or taking proper security procedures, some may be able to hack into your computer and gain some personal information, but that's another story.

Answer 3

Depends on if your IP address is being NAT'd or not behind a firewall. For instance, if you were going by IP address (not my username) you'd have no way to figure out who I am. IP address really doesn't prove anything.

Example:
Your neighbor installs a wireless router to their cable modem at their house. The signal is strong enough so that you can pick it up in your house. Even though the server logs at the cable company would show that IP address as coming from your neighbor's house, it is actually YOU at your house.

So the answer is yes and no. :-) Yes, someone could figure out who you are if you didn't do anything at all to mask it. However, there'd have to be some good audit trails in place for someone to figure it out.

Answer 4

An IP address can appear to be shared by multiple client devices either because they are part of a shared hosting web server environment or because a proxy server (e.g. an ISP or anonymizer service) acts as an intermediary agent on behalf of its customers, in which case the real originating IP addresses might be hidden from the server receiving a request. The analogy to telephone systems would be the use of predial numbers (proxy) and extensions (shared).

IP addresses are managed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. IANA generally assigns super-blocks to Regional Internet Registries, who in turn allocate smaller blocks to Internet Service Providers and enterprises.
Yes you can be located.

Answer 5

yes someone can use your IP address to track you. However if you work through a proxy this becomes harder as the proxy server tends to churn up temporary IP addresses. People still can use software tools to break this if they want it bad enough. in a normal circumstance you shouldn't worry.

Answer 6

To find out who it is can be hard
You can find out what ISP they are using plus a few other things
If you do something illegal then they can contact the ISP and they can give them details of that IP
A few links to look up IP details

Answer 7

Yes. It might require a subpoena or court order to get release of the information, but it is easily determined.

Answer 8

yes they can. you can get ip changers from the local computer fixer

Answer 9

yes, with 100% accuracy

Answer 10

YUP! use to work for the PD... and we always found out!