Autonomous system
AS11042 NTHL
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Network Transit Holdings LLC
hosting legacy
NTHL is Network Transit Holdings LLC, registered in Spring, Texas. Despite the name, the routing does not show a transit carrier: it shows a mid-sized US hosting group, announcing 96 IPv4 prefixes (about 66,500 addresses) and six IPv6 prefixes, with only seven observed BGP neighbours.
What it's used for
The reverse DNS across the announced space is server-shaped and multi-tenant: sampled addresses answer as things like vps.hosting42.net, r9.nswebhost.com, mta5.<customer>, static.gnax.net and a run of *.nocdirect.com machine names, alongside a scatter of unrelated customer domains from several countries. That is the signature of dedicated-server, colocation and VPS hosting sold to many small customers, not of an eyeball or carrier network. The company appears to be a holding vehicle for hosting brands rather than a single consumer-facing product, which is why so many different hostnames appear on space that is registered to one org.
Notable
This is a clean case of inventory beating the name. "Network Transit" reads like a wholesale carrier, but seven neighbours against ninety-six prefixes says otherwise — a transit provider of that address size would be peering with hundreds of ASes, not a handful of upstreams. Read the routing, not the brand.
Interesting
Every announced prefix checked resolves back to NTHL as the registrant. Scattered /22s and /24s pulled from many different legacy /8s often signal an address broker, but here the space is self-registered and carries first-party hosting rDNS, which is what a hosting company that has grown by acquiring smaller providers looks like.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 91 prefixes · 66.56K addresses IPv6 5 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 96 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11042- Registry name
- NTHL
- Registrant
- NETWORK TRANSIT HOLDINGS LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@networktransit.net
- Registered
- 2010-12-03
- Last changed
- 2016-09-21
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 2% valid · 2 valid, 100 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS11042
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 102 of 102 announcements
- Route objects
- 116 naming AS11042
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere