Autonomous system
AS16202 TC-PRIMACOM Tele Columbus AG
Unclassified APNIC Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Tele Columbus
isp telecom media
Dozens of blocks named after cable headends, with a year and a sequence number that is sometimes padded and sometimes not.
What it's used for
- A cable operator. Eighty-three IPv4 prefixes and three IPv6 prefixes announced from Germany, one hundred and seven thousand five hundred and twenty addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Many netnames are an acquired cable brand, the word for the sites where cable plant terminates, a year and a sequence number. The padding is inconsistent: some sequences are a single digit, others are padded with a leading zero.
- The rest use a country code, the current company name and a full date, with dates spanning nine years.
- Two contacts appear on every block, an address contact and an abuse contact, both named for the current company. The company itself is listed on the dated blocks but not on the headend ones.
- Nine of eighteen queried addresses answered. Each name is the four numbers of the address as separate labels with dots between them, then three letters for dynamic, then a third brand's domain.
- Dotted labels rather than hyphens make each name eight labels long.
Interesting
- Naming blocks after headends is a cable operator thinking in physical plant. Each range serves the households fed by one facility, and the year records when that facility needed more addresses.
- Three brands in one record, one in the netnames, one in the contacts and one in the reverse zone, is the ordinary residue of consolidation in a market where cable networks were bought town by town.
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, 1 downstream and 3 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS16097 | HL komm Telekommunikations GmbH | 1,547 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-05, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 82 prefixes · 106K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 85 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS16202- Registry name
- TC-PRIMACOM
- Registrant
- Tele Columbus AG
- Abuse contact
- abuse@mip-platform.net
- Registered
- 2002-09-02
- Last changed
- 2025-07-09
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- PŸUR - Mitte
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Restrictive
- Website
- https://www.pyur.com
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
- 100% valid · 32 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 50 authorising AS16202
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 32 of 32 announcements
- Route objects
- 50 naming AS16202
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: 453 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-06. 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