Is 8.8.8.8 a proxy or VPN?
Guarda classifies 8.8.8.8 as Hosting / Datacenter with a risk score of 45/100, geolocated to United States on the GOOGLE network.
8.8.8.8
Flagged
Hosting / Datacenter
Datacenter
45
Elevated risk
- Known abusive network
- Datacenter / hosting range
- Second-opinion feed also flagged this address
- IP version
- IPv4
- Country
- United States · US
- Region
- California · CA
- City
- Los Angeles · 90009
- Coordinates
- 34.0544, -118.2441
- Timezone
- America/Los_Angeles
- Currency
- —
- ASN
- AS15169
- Provider
- ISP
- Hostname
- dns.google
- Domain
- google.com
- Connection type
- Corporate
- Mobile carrier
- No
- Residential
- No
- Datacenter / hosting
- Yes
- VPN
- No
- TOR exit
- No
- Public proxy
- No
- Web proxy
- No
- Search bot
- No
- Confidence
- 1
- Checked at
- Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:52:47 GMT
How this result is produced
Every address is checked against proxy, VPN and TOR exit signals, hosting and datacenter ranges, ASN ownership and reverse DNS. Those signals feed one explainable risk score, so the same number means the same thing on every lookup. Results are cached briefly, which is why repeated checks return instantly.
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