IPASKIP types explained
Not every address behaves the same when a platform looks at a new login. This is what the main types mean in practice, and what to check before you pay for a pool.
| Type | What it is | What platforms see |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | Assigned to a home connection by a consumer ISP. Usually shared with a household and changes rarely. | The normal case. Low friction unless the address has a history of abuse or many accounts. |
| Business / ISP | A commercial or institutional line: offices, schools, small ISPs. | Legitimate but less common for a seller; high activity from one line can look like a team. |
| Mobile | Assigned by a mobile carrier; the same address is shared by many phones and can rotate. | Often accepted, because carriers rotate addresses constantly. Signals are weaker, not stronger. |
| Datacenter / hosting | Belongs to a cloud or hosting provider (AWS, Vultr, DigitalOcean, VPS sellers). | The classic "residential proxy" bait. Platforms weight it heavily, even if the seller calls it residential. |
| CDN | Anycast edge addresses from Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly and similar. | Shared by thousands of sites. Fine to browse, poor for account registration. |
| VPN / Tor / proxy | Exit nodes of a VPN, Tor or a public proxy network. | Highest risk. Tor exits are on public lists; VPN ranges are widely flagged. |
How we decide
- We start with registry facts: who owns the range (ASN + RDAP) and what the network is for.
- Then we add network signals: hosting/cloud ranges, CDN ranges, Tor exits, DROP blacklists, and VPN providers.
- Then we show a verdict with the evidence behind it — not a black-box score. A "residential" label is a screen, not a guarantee.
Before you pay for a pool
- Check a sample from the actual pool, not the vendor's screenshot.
- Look at the ASN mix: many ranges from one hosting ASN usually means resold datacenter space.
- Check the same IPs on two different days if the vendor claims static residential.
- Keep a copy of the report and the IP list — it is your evidence if the platform flags you later.
FAQ
Is a residential IP always safe?
No. It is one signal. A residential address with a long abuse history, or shared by dozens of accounts, can be worse than a clean datacenter one.
Why does a datacenter IP get sold as residential?
Because the label is what sells. The address may be routed through a consumer ISP, but the range often belongs to a hosting provider — the ASN tells you.
Can I check a whole pool?
Yes. Paste up to 100 addresses (or a 1.2.3.* range) and you get a verdict per address, plus a report you can send to the supplier.
IP types
- How to verify a pool before you pay
- Static residential vs rotating
- Why a new store gets banned on the first login
- The five residential proxy lies
- What platforms usually look at
- Your IP shows the wrong country — here is why
- Account warm-up: what works, what is folklore
- When your supplier quietly swaps the pool
- Read a 50-address sample in five minutes
- How to read an IP pool report
- What an IP risk score means
- How to check an IP for free
- How to verify a supplier screenshot
- Where static residential IPs come from