Autonomous system
AS13273 ALTERWAY-OPS
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Alter Way
hosting transit business
A corporate tagline lives inside the registrant field, on all six blocks.
What it's used for
- The network of a French hosting and managed services company. 27,392 addresses across six IPv4 prefixes, one IPv6 prefix
2a04:1940::/29, and fifty observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Every block lists the registrant as
Alter Way, a Smile Group Company, Network Team. - All six netnames use a third brand:
FR-NEXEN-20000517,FR-NEXEN-20001204,FR-NEXEN-20100622,FR-NEXEN-20130318andFR-NEXEN-20150826. - Two separate prefixes, a /23 and a /24, share the netname date
20100622. - The IPv6 announcement is a /29, a far larger share of that address space than the IPv4 footprint.
Interesting
- The registrant field is meant to answer "who holds this". Here it answers that, plus who owns them, plus which department to ask, in one comma-separated string. Marketing copy reaching a routing registry is how ownership changes get recorded when nobody wants to lose the old name.
- The netname brand spans dates from 2000 to 2015, so the label survived at least one rename and kept being applied to new allocations long after the company answering the phone had changed.
- Two prefixes carrying the same date came from one allocation event that could not be expressed as a single block, which is why they are announced separately but labelled identically.
- Fifty neighbours against twenty-seven thousand addresses puts real transit alongside the hosting.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.238.57 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Paris | Paris, France | 195.42.145.112 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 0 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 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 27.39K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| FR | France | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS13273- Registry name
- ALTERWAY-OPS
- Registrant
- MNT-ALTERWAY
- Abuse contact
- abuse-ripe@alterway.fr
- Registered
- 2002-09-06
- Last changed
- 2024-04-29
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 17 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS13273
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 94% registered · 16 of 17 announcements
- Route objects
- 39 naming AS13273
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 1,781 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