Autonomous system
AS15601 Baring Investment Services
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Baring Investment Services
finance enterprise business
An entire /16 announced as one route, with nothing answering inside it.
What it's used for
- An investment firm's network. One IPv4
/16announced from the United Kingdom, no IPv6, sixty-five thousand addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The whole holding is a single
/16, announced complete, with no more specific pieces broken out of it anywhere. - The block's netname ends in a shortened form of the word management with an extra letter on the end, a typing slip preserved in the registry.
- The registrant company name differs from the holder name: one is the asset management arm, the other the investment services one.
- Two neighbours carry sixty-five thousand addresses.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Sixty-five thousand addresses for one firm is an allocation from the era when a large organisation simply asked for a
/16and received one. Nothing since has made them give any of it back. - Announcing it whole, with no fragments, means the entire estate sits behind one routing decision. That is unusual at this size and much tidier than most networks manage.
- A typo in a netname is permanent in a way few other records are. It will be quoted in filters and documentation for as long as the block is used.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, 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 · 65.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS15601- Registry name
- UNSPECIFIED
- Registrant
- AS15601-MNT
- Abuse contact
- internet.admin@baring-asset.com
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2025-03-06
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS15601
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS15601
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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