Autonomous system
AS16075 TAZ-AS taz die tageszeitung autonomous system
Hosting RIPE
Summary
taz
media business infrastructure
A newspaper with two hundred and fifty-six addresses and eight neighbours.
What it's used for
- A daily newspaper's network. One IPv4
/24and one IPv6/48announced from Germany, two hundred and fifty-six addresses, across eight observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The holder's name spells the legal form for a limited company out in full as four words rather than using the usual four-letter abbreviation, with the vowel written as two letters, and ends with the city.
- The AS handle repeats the paper's masthead in lower case and then the words for an autonomous system, spelled out rather than abbreviated.
- The netname is the brand and the city.
- One registrant is a role whose name ends in the word for a day, which reads as a duty rota rather than a person or a team.
- Two of three queried addresses answered, both a four-letter contraction for a server with a short suffix, on the paper's own domain.
Interesting
- Eight neighbours on a single block is a lot, and it is the most interesting number here. A newspaper that peers this widely is treating being reachable as part of publishing, not as an IT expense.
- Spelling out the words for an autonomous system in a field that exists precisely to abbreviate them is in keeping with a paper that spells its legal form out too. The record was filled in by someone who preferred words to codes.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange | Berlin, Germany | 193.178.185.91 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-16, 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 · 256 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS16075- Registry name
- TAZ-AS
- Registrant
- MNT-TAZ
- Abuse contact
- abuse@taz.de
- Registered
- 2009-12-18
- Last changed
- 2024-02-28
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS16075
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS16075
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 2026-10-17. 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