Hosting classification

Inspect hosting infrastructure and retained datacenter classifications.

Separate infrastructure from consumer access.

Use risk.is_datacenter to group traffic associated with hosting infrastructure. Read request behavior separately; legitimate APIs, monitors and websites also use hosting networks.

1.1.1.1Full IP report

Example lookup1.1.1.1risk.is_datacentertrue

Hosting classificationClassified

AS13335 · Cloudflare, Inc.

Hosting is a network category, not a verdict about abuse. A hosting address may run ordinary websites, APIs or other infrastructure.

API fields

Field definitionExample from 1.1.1.1

risk.is_datacenterType: boolean: Hosting classification or a retained datacenter override matches the address.; Example valuetrue

Look up one address

Request

curl --fail --silent --show-error --max-time 5 \
  "https://api.ipquery.io/1.1.1.1?format=json"

Actual response fields

JSON

{
  "ip": "1.1.1.1",
  "risk": {
    "is_mobile": false,
    "is_vpn": false,
    "is_tor": false,
    "is_proxy": false,
    "is_datacenter": true,
    "risk_score": 20
  }
}

The excerpt shows the relevant fields from this single-IP response. Inspect the full IP report

For the connecting client’s own address, use https://api.ipquery.io/?format=json. Bulk lookups are disabled.

API reference

Matching and provenance

Enterprise hosting fields plus the existing IPQuery datacenter overrides.

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