Autonomous system
AS12488 KRYSTAL
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Krystal Hosting
hosting managed-hosting vps
A UK web-hosting and cloud network, now held by KRYSTAL (Krystal Hosting Ltd). This ASN was historically operated by Timico / ICM, a UK managed-services ISP that rebranded to Digital Space in 2021; the number has since moved to Krystal.
What it's used for
- Shared, managed, and VPS web hosting for UK businesses and websites.
Notable
- An IP here identifies the host, not the operator of the site running on it.
- Registry naming lags reality: older lookups may still label this ASN as Timico even though the current holder is Krystal Hosting.
Interesting
- Krystal markets itself as a green, renewable-powered UK hosting provider.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.226.73 |
Transit providers
6 upstream, 1 downstream and 12 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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 16 prefixes · 17.41K addresses IPv6 4 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 20 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12488- Registry name
- KRYSTAL
- Registrant
- KRYSTAL-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@krystal.io
- Registered
- 2007-04-10
- Last changed
- 2021-02-05
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 25 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS12488
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 25 of 25 announcements
- Route objects
- 93 naming AS12488
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 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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