Autonomous system
AS13010 MTS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
MTS Internet
isp hosting business
A 1999 netname written in six digits, from an era when the registry accepted either length.
What it's used for
- A German internet provider. 8,192 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The whole inventory is
212.28.96.0/19, netnameDE-MTS-990818. - That date is written
990818, six digits, where almost every other netname in this range uses eight. - Three addresses were sampled and none answered.
Interesting
- The six-digit form is the same convention that produced two-digit years everywhere else in computing, and it sits in the registry beside eight-digit dates registered months later, such as
DE-GENIAS-20000209on a neighbouring AS. The two forms overlapped rather than replacing one another, so the length of a netname's date says nothing about how old it is. Read the digits. - A
/19announced whole, with nothing carved out of it, is the tidiest possible routing table entry. Providers usually end up announcing fragments as customers come and go, so an intact aggregate suggests address space still used as one network. - Two neighbours for 8,192 addresses is a provider buying transit rather than peering.
- The company shares its initials with a much larger carrier elsewhere. The registry has no notion of trademark, so identical short names recur across unrelated holders and countries, which is exactly why the AS number rather than the name is the identifier worth quoting.
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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 · 8.19K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS13010- Registry name
- MTS
- Registrant
- AS13010-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@mts.de
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2021-09-18
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS13010
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS13010
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 1,781 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