Autonomous system
AS15440 BALTNETA Customers AS
Unclassified RIPE NSP
Summary
Baltneta
isp hosting telecom infrastructure
One address answers with a bare domain meaning test, among eight that follow the rule.
What it's used for
- A business internet and hosting provider. Twenty-four IPv4 prefixes and three IPv6 prefixes announced from Lithuania, fifty thousand addresses, across forty-eight observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Seven of the answering addresses use one form: the word for an address, the full address in dashes, and the company's short domain. The eighth returns a bare domain whose name is a word for test.
- The holder's registered name is wrapped in quotation marks, which appear verbatim in every lookup.
- Most netnames follow country code, company and date, with the earliest written as six digits and the rest as eight. Three blocks share one date.
- Two netnames drop that pattern entirely for the words client and data centre, and one block belongs to a different company under its own name.
- Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and eight returned a name.
Interesting
- The stray test domain is a leftover that has outlived whatever it was testing. Reverse entries are written once and rarely audited, so they preserve mistakes indefinitely.
- Marking a block as the data centre is useful to anybody deciding whether an address is a server or a customer line, and the operator published that distinction without meaning to.
- Forty-eight neighbours for fifty thousand addresses is heavy interconnection, which is what selling hosting rather than home broadband requires.
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 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Baltic Internet Exchange | Vilnius, Lithuania | 77.241.206.2 |
| Santa Monica Internet Local Exchange | Riga, Latvia | 195.246.227.54 |
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 24 prefixes · 50.43K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| LT | Lithuania | 27 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS15440- Registry name
- Baltneta
- Registrant
- BNK-LT-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@balt.net
- Registered
- 2002-07-17
- Last changed
- 2023-01-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Baltnetos Komunikacijos Customers
- Also known as
- BALTNETA
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-ML- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://www.balt.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
- 95% valid · 38 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 49 authorising AS15440
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 39 of 40 announcements
- Route objects
- 52 naming AS15440
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 1,782 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