Autonomous system
AS12574 ROUTING Franzstr. 51, 52064 Aachen
Hosting RIPE Content
Summary
Hosting.de
hosting business
A German host whose AS name is a street address, announcing a /19 with a /23-shaped hole in the middle of it.
What it's used for
- Web and server hosting. 7,680 addresses in five IPv4 prefixes, one IPv6 prefix, and one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The AS handle is a postal address:
ROUTING Franzstr. 51, 52064 Aachen. - The five announcements are
213.160.64.0/21,213.160.72.0/21,213.160.80.0/21,213.160.88.0/22and213.160.94.0/23. - Four of the five share the netname
DE-HOSTING-20000225; the registry record for the fifth could not be fetched. - The IPv6 announcement is
2a00:17d8::/32. - One sampled address answers
213.160.85.254.prohost.de.
Interesting
- Those five pieces span
213.160.64.0to213.160.95.255, which is exactly one/19— with213.160.92.0/23left out. Five hundred and twelve addresses in the middle of the range are either used somewhere else, sublet to somebody who announces them separately, or simply not routed. A hole is one of the few things in BGP that is visible only by adding up what is around it. - Putting a street address and postcode in the AS name field is a filing habit from an era when the registry entry was the phone book. It is still the only place in this record that says where the company is.
- The single reverse name belongs to
prohost.de, not tohosting.de. Hosting companies accumulate brands, and the reverse zone is usually the last place the old one survives.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS48823 | Hosting.de GmbH | 280 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-22, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 7.68K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12574- Registry name
- ROUTING
- Registrant
- HOSTINGDE-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@hosting.de
- Registered
- 2002-07-22
- Last changed
- 2018-11-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- http.net Internet GmbH
- Network type
- Content
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Outbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-ROUTING- Website
- http://www.http.net/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS12574
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 34 naming AS12574
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-23. 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