Autonomous system
AS16262 DATACHEAP-LLC-AS
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Datacheap
hosting isp business
Seven spellings of one brand across eight blocks, and several hostnames on the domain reserved for examples.
What it's used for
- A hosting provider's network. Eight IPv4 prefixes announced from the Russian Federation, no IPv6, five thousand one hundred and twenty addresses, through three observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- No two netname conventions agree. The brand appears in capitals with a suffix, in mixed case alone, in capitals split into two words by a hyphen, and joined to the legal form by an underscore.
- One netname is a lowercase nickname with no company in it at all. Another uses a foreign country code, a different company and a full date, and is registered to that company rather than this one.
- Two blocks are registered to a second company entirely, and one of those lists a single contact whose label ends in the word for sleeping.
- Ten of eighteen queried addresses answered, and the answers fall into three groups. Four label the first and last address of a range as the network and broadcast addresses, under a label for reserved.
- Two are the single word for a gateway with no domain after it, which is not a valid name to hand back.
- Four sit on the domain the standards reserve for documentation, so real addresses answer with names that were never meant to exist.
Interesting
- Reserved and documentation domains in live reverse DNS are copied from an example somebody was working from. The record answers, nothing checks it, and the placeholder becomes permanent.
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, 2 downstream and 3 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS202984 | Chernyshov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich | 530 |
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 7 prefixes · 4.86K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS16262- Registry name
- DATACHEAP-LLC-AS
- Registrant
- MNT-DATACHEAP
- Abuse contact
- info@datacheap.ru
- Registered
- 2009-10-08
- Last changed
- 2024-09-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 9 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 12 authorising AS16262
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 9 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 21 naming AS16262
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: 440 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