Autonomous system
AS16260 GTT-AUS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
GTT - EMEA
transit hosting telecom
Ten blocks, four former owners, and only one of them registered to the company announcing them.
What it's used for
- A transit provider's network. Eleven prefixes announced from the United Kingdom, one of them IPv6, seven thousand nine hundred and thirty-six addresses, through sixteen observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Four blocks are registered to an exchange-services company whose netname is its own name in capitals.
- Four more belong to a zone-branded provider under two netnames, one plain and one with a numeral appended, with no rule distinguishing which block gets which.
- One belongs to a wireless carrier, and exactly one carries the announcing company's own netname, which is its abbreviation written twice with a hyphen between.
- Every block comes from legacy address space administered on another continent, while all of them are announced from the United Kingdom.
- The AS handle pairs the company abbreviation with three letters that name a country other than the one the blocks are announced from.
- Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A transit provider grows by acquisition, and the registry is the slowest thing to catch up. Routing moves the day the deal closes; a registration changes only when somebody files a form, and nothing breaks if nobody does.
- Repeating an abbreviation to make a netname, when the abbreviation alone would do, is the sound of a field that requires two parts and a company with only one name to give it.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 45.127.173.77 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 10 prefixes · 7.94K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 11 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS16260- Registry name
- GTT-AUS
- Registrant
- GTT - EMEA Ltd.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@gtt.net
- Registered
- 2002-02-25
- Last changed
- 2025-04-22
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 9% valid · 1 valid, 10 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS16260
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 55% registered · 6 of 11 announcements
- Route objects
- 31 naming AS16260
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: 442 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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