Autonomous system
AS16247 M247-UK M247 UK Ltd, trading as M247
Hosting RIPE
Summary
M247 UK
hosting isp transit
One netname on almost every block, one of them dated to before the web had users.
What it's used for
- A hosting and transit provider's network. One hundred and thirty-five prefixes announced from the United Kingdom, four of them IPv6, eighty thousand one hundred and twenty-eight addresses, through ninety-nine observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The holder field is the brand, then a predecessor's full legal name including a bracketed word for the access technology it was founded on. The AS handle is the brand, the brand again with a legal suffix, and then the words saying it trades as the brand. Between them the current name appears three times and the predecessor's once.
- Almost every sampled block carries one netname: a country code, two letters for the predecessor, the word for a network, and a full date. The dates spread across thirteen years.
- The oldest is dated to the early nineties, well before the rest, which makes it a legacy allocation carried through every change of owner since.
- One block breaks the scheme entirely with a planet and the word for a city.
- All three contacts on every block name the predecessor, spelled out in full each time, with the roles appended after a hyphen.
- Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Ninety-nine neighbours on eighty thousand addresses is a transit business rather than an access network. The value is in who it connects to, and the address count is incidental.
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 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.185 |
| London Network Access Point | London, United Kingdom | 5.57.81.201 |
| LINX Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 195.66.244.253 |
Transit providers
22 upstream, 6 downstream and 42 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
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 131 prefixes · 80.13K addresses IPv6 4 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 135 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS16247- Registry name
- M247-UK
- Registrant
- M247-UK-MNT
- Abuse contact
- support@convergencegroup.co.uk
- Registered
- 2002-07-15
- Last changed
- 2026-02-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 1% valid · 3 valid, 233 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS16247
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 231 of 236 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 240 naming AS16247
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