Autonomous system
AS15535 VIRTUALXS-AS
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Virtual Access Internet
hosting business infrastructure
Every address answers with the same name, and the name is an advertisement.
What it's used for
- A hosting provider. A single IPv4
/21announced from the Netherlands, no IPv6, two thousand addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- All three sampled addresses return an identical name, written entirely in capitals, reading as a statement that the address is hosted by the company.
- Because the name is the same for every address, it identifies nothing beyond the provider.
- The one block carries a netname with the country code, the company code and an allocation date, with the company and an abuse role as registrants.
- Nothing else is announced: no second block, no IPv6, no fragments.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and all three returned a name.
Interesting
- A single wildcard name across a whole block is the least informative reverse record that still counts as one. It satisfies systems that check whether a name exists, without saying anything about the host.
- Some receivers will accept mail from an address with any name and reject one with none, so a wildcard is a cheap way to clear that bar for two thousand addresses at once.
- The cost is that nobody, including the provider, can tell two addresses apart from their names. Every trace, every log line and every abuse report points at the same string.
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 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS25151 | Cyso Group B.V. | 59 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-19, 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 · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NL | Netherlands | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS15535- Registry name
- VIRTUALXS-AS
- Registrant
- Virtual Access Internet BV
- Abuse contact
- registry@virtualxs.com
- Registered
- 2002-01-25
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS15535
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS15535
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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