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.

Abuse Contact

Actionable Data for Fraud Risk

Abuse contact data empowers businesses to combat malicious activities fast

{
  address:"US, CA, Mountain View, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, 94043",
  country:"US",
  email:"network-abuse@google.com",
  name:"Abuse",
  network:"8.8.8.0/24",
  phone:"+1-650-253-0000"
}

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Comprehensive, Detailed Data

Access billions of abuse contact details with IPinfo’s abuse contact data. Our database provides accurate information for the abuse contact associated with every IP address on the internet, empowering you to report malicious activities effectively. This information helps users manage abuse reports, safeguard their users, and protect their reputations.

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API, database download, and platform integrations—built for any stack, any scale.

Reliable IP Intelligence

Industry-leading precision, daily updates, and trusted accuracy for every IP address.

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Official libraries, clean docs, and powerful APIs designed for real-world deployment.

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$ curl https://api.ipinfo.io/lookup/8.8.8.8?token=$TOKEN

{
  address:"US, CA, Mountain View, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, 94043",
  country:"US",
  email:"network-abuse@google.com",
  name:"Abuse",
  network:"8.8.8.0/24",
  phone:"+1-650-253-0000"
}

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csv37M entries · updated Aug 19, 2026347.96 MBjson37M entries · updated Aug 19, 2026379 MBmmdb12M entries · updated Aug 19, 2026682.05 MBparquet37M entries · updated Aug 19, 2026150.13 MB

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How to get our Abuse Contact data

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Key feature	IPinfo Lite	IPinfo Core	IPinfo Max
Network The IP network, in CIDR notation, the abuse contact is registered for.
Name The name of the abuse contact.
Email The email address abuse from the network is reported to.
Address The organizational address of the abuse contact.
Country The two-letter country code of the abuse contact (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2).
Phone The organizational phone number of the abuse contact.
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How People Use Abuse Contact Data

Abuse contact data powers everything from incident response to policy enforcement. With accurate abuse desk contacts for IP addresses, teams can act quickly and effectively when addressing security incidents, policy violations, or abuse reports. Here’s how top companies put IPinfo’s abuse contact data to work:

Fraud & Abuse Prevention

Report hackers and spammers before they escalate into serious threats of reputational damage, data breaches, or financial loss.

Incident Response

Accelerate investigations by immediately identifying the right abuse contacts for compromised IPs or malicious infrastructure.

Policy Enforcement

Ensure compliance with industry standards by escalating abuse cases to the responsible network operators quickly and accurately.

Made for Developers, Trusted by Enterprises

Our expert in-house team diligently maintains and supports our Abuse Contact, ensuring you always have accurate, up-to-date IP data at your fingertips. With libraries for more than a dozen popular programming languages—from Ruby to Rust and PHP to Perl—integrating our API is quick and seamless. Explore our developer docs to see just how easy it is to get started.

Working with IPinfo.io has been a wonderful experience for us, the IP to Company dataset was the best we tested so far. They are an incredibly professional team that worked with us to solve some customized issues we were having.
Nick HollingerCo-Founder & CEO at Visitor Queue

IPinfo.io is key part of my entire automation stack. I've been really impressed with the quality of the data
Daniel MiesslerCybersecurity Expert and Podcaster

IP geolocation is part art, part science -- Ben Dowling and the IPinfo team nail both!
David BelsonSenior Director, Data Insights at Fastly

Working with IPinfo.io has been a wonderful experience for us, the IP to Company dataset was the best we tested so far. They are an incredibly professional team that worked with us to solve some customized issues we were having.
Nick HollingerCo-Founder & CEO at Visitor Queue

IPinfo.io is key part of my entire automation stack. I've been really impressed with the quality of the data
Daniel MiesslerCybersecurity Expert and Podcaster

Rated #1 for IP Data Accuracy

Manjeet S.

IPinfo isn’t just about IP Lookups, it also helped us increase our sales.

Bruce F.

IPinfo is my silent watchdog as it helps me in pinpointing risk, location & users in real-time.

Otis J.

IPinfo was surprisingly valuable and outperformed all the other IP intelligence tools I've tried.

Frequently asked questions

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.
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.
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.
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.

Actionable Data for Fraud Risk

Comprehensive, Detailed Data

Flexible Access Options

Reliable IP Intelligence

Built for Developers