Real-Time Tor Detection on ippages.com

Yesterday we rolled out Real-Time Tor Network detection to our HTML pages on ippages.com so that anyone using the Tor Network can go to http://www.ippages.com/ and see something like the following at the top of the page:

84.19.182.23 is a Tor Network exit node (nickname wormhole)
at Host Name wormhole.vnfonatic.de (running Tor 0.1.1.22 on Linux i686)
so you appear to be in DE-Germany (verified) (Thuringen)
through Internet Service Provider (ISP) Keyweb AG (or possibly Keyweb Ag Ip Network)

Further down the page there will also be a "Tor Network node:" section where further details are displayed, and your Country will be shown as "A3-Anonymous Tor Network Proxy (in DE-Germany)".

Why have we done this? Because one of the purposes of our showmyip.com and ippages.com web sites is to show users what web site operators know about you, or believe to be true about you. And when you are using the Tor Network, they can now know all this information about you. Note that they cannot tell what country you are actually in, or what ISP, etc. you are actually using.

If you are a web site operator, and wonder how you can get this same information about your visitors, you can subscribe to our IP Address Lookup service and get all this. Details are available at https://www.ippages.com/lookups/.

One last note about the way the Country is displayed above as "DE-Germany (verified)" and the ISP is displayed as "Keyweb AG (or possibly Keyweb Ag Ip Network)". The word "verified" indicates that both the IP/Geo-location databases we subscribe to give the same result, so it is most likely accurate. The phrase "or possibly ..." indicates that the databases give different results, so one or the other is likely accurate.

We are still working on adding Real-Time Tor Detection to our SOAP interfaces, which will come next. After that our simple text interface will be done, then the CVS format and bulk upload interface. And after that we will start adding all this to showmyip.com!