Autonomous system
AS12390 KINGSTON-UK-AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
KCOM Group
isp eyeball broadband legacy
The access network of Hull's own telephone company, the one part of Britain BT never served.
What it's used for
- Residential and business broadband. 250,880 addresses over 23 IPv4 prefixes, two IPv6
/32s, and 84 observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Every netname is a dated variation on the same stem:
UK-KINGSTON-960404, then990406,20000616,20040220,20070330,20090119and20100422. The holder is registered as KCOM Group Limited; the address records still say Kingston. - One block is
ADSLPOOL-KCOM, named for what it holds. - Reverse DNS runs two brands at once. Static addresses answer as
5-198-95-254.static.kc.net.uk; the older194.207space answers asadsl-194-207-223-254.karoo.kcom.com.
Interesting
- Kingston upon Hull is the exception in British telecoms. When the country's telephone networks were consolidated under the Post Office, Hull's corporation kept the municipal telephone department it had run since the early 1900s, and the city has been served by its own operator ever since instead of by BT. The cream phone boxes were the visible version of that;
UK-KINGSTONin the registry is the version that ended up in the routing table. - Karoo was the consumer ISP brand, and it is what the ADSL addresses still answer as. Company names change faster than reverse DNS zones, so the marketing history of a network tends to accumulate there rather than get replaced.
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
Recorded at 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.119 |
| London Network Access Point | London, United Kingdom | 5.57.80.18 |
| LINX Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 195.66.244.24 |
Transit providers
25 upstream, 1 downstream and 36 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 23 prefixes · 251K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 25 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12390- Registry name
- KINGSTON-UK-AS
- Registrant
- KINGSTON-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@kcom.com
- Registered
- 2002-09-12
- Last changed
- 2023-10-17
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 95% valid · 19 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 19 authorising AS12390
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 95% registered · 19 of 20 announcements
- Route objects
- 22 naming AS12390
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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