Who Owns an IP Address?

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If you have a complaint or issue with the behavior of someone online, a good way of dealing with this is to contact the owner of their IP address. But how do you find the owner of an IP address?

IP Addresses and Privacy Laws

There are various reasons for finding out the owner of an IP address. Typically you might like to contact the owner with relation to activity hailing from that address, and using one of the various online services that display information for URL and IP address owners, this information can be uncovered.
Note that if you are looking for an IP address currently or recently used by an individual (as opposed to the registered owner) then this information is not available. Such data is protected by privacy laws and therefore cannot be discovered online,  more...