Autonomous system
AS12298 QIAGEN-AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
QIAGEN
enterprise legacy
A single small announcement belonging to a biotechnology sample and assay company.
What it's used for
- Corporate connectivity. 512 addresses in one
/23with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The whole inventory is
91.226.248.0/23, netnameQIAGEN, registered to QIAGEN GmbH. - Two neighbours rather than one. The smallest possible network with a second path.
Interesting
- QIAGEN makes the kits that get DNA and RNA out of a sample and into a state a machine can read. Its products sit upstream of a large share of the world's clinical and research molecular biology, which meant that when testing capacity became a global constraint the bottleneck was partly in reagent supply rather than instruments.
- A
/23is what a company like this needs from the public internet, and the two neighbours are the interesting part of the record. Announcing 512 addresses through one provider is a configuration; announcing them through two is a decision that somebody has to maintain, renew and test. For a business whose customers are laboratories waiting on orders, the second path is worth the trouble.
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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 1 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12298- Registry name
- QIAGEN-AS
- Registrant
- DTAG-NIC
- Abuse contact
- Stephan.Huetzen@qiagen.com
- Registered
- 2011-05-02
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS12298
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS12298
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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