Autonomous system
AS13030 INIT7
Hosting RIPE NSP
Summary
Init7
isp telecom transit
896 neighbours, fourteen years of dated netnames, and one reverse name that is off by one.
What it's used for
- A Swiss internet provider and transit network. 117,248 addresses across 54 IPv4 prefixes, 36 IPv6 prefixes, and 896 observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Every netname is
CH-KUENZLER-with a date:19961127,20000119,20020613,20031107,20050113,20070119,20080506and20100222. - Seven of eighteen sampled addresses answered.
109.202.207.255answers109-202-207-254.init7.net, naming the address next to it.- Other names include
empty.init7.net, a customer's own domain atquantum.w0x.org, and one carrying the brandfiber7.
Interesting
- 896 neighbours puts this among the most densely connected networks in the corpus, and it is a peering position rather than a size one: the address count is ordinary for a national provider, while the adjacency count is what a network gets by showing up at every exchange it can reach.
- Eight dated netnames from 1996 to 2010 give the whole allocation history with no gaps, and every one carries a surname rather than the company name. The person who founded the registry membership is still the label on all of it.
- One address answers with its neighbour's name. A generated zone that is off by one somewhere in its arithmetic produces exactly this, and nothing catches it because nothing checks that a reverse name resolves back to where it came from.
emptyas a hostname is an operator marking unused space on purpose, which is more information than silence would give.
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 31 exchanges in 11 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.193.67 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.175 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.208.210 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.237.158 |
| Milan Internet Exchange | Milan, Italy | 217.29.66.228 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 2001:504:0:2:0:1:3030:1 |
| Any2 California | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.210.85 |
| London Network Access Point | London, United Kingdom | 5.57.81.7 |
Transit providers
33 upstream, 365 downstream and 500 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 2026-10-12, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 54 prefixes · 118K addresses IPv6 38 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CH | Switzerland | 92 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS13030- Registry name
- INIT7
- Registrant
- MNT-INIT7-NOC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@init7.net
- Registered
- 2002-09-17
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Init7
- Also known as
- Init7 (Suisse) SA, Init7 (Schweiz) AG, Fiber7, fiber7.ch, easyzone.ch
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-INIT7- Present at
- 28 exchanges
- Facilities
- 41 facilities
- Website
- http://www.init7.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
- 83% valid · 75 valid, 15 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 78 authorising AS13030
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 94% registered · 85 of 90 announcements
- Route objects
- 99 naming AS13030
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: 436 networks and 1,769 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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