Autonomous system
AS16297 WIIT-IT-AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
WIIT
hosting business isp
One address answers with a bare domain and no host label at all, on a brand that appears nowhere else.
What it's used for
- A managed hosting company's network. Three IPv4 prefixes announced from Italy, no IPv6, thirteen thousand three hundred and twelve addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- All three blocks share one netname scheme: a country code, a predecessor's brand, and a full date. The dates span fifteen years, so the scheme survived the company's rename.
- Four of nine queried addresses answered, on two domains, neither of which is the holder's.
- One answer is a bare domain with no host part: two words run together and a country suffix, which is the name a website would use rather than a machine.
- The other three are the four numbers of the address with hyphens, on a domain that is a preposition and a number run together with a commercial suffix.
- The two older blocks list a network management role ahead of the company; the newest drops it.
Interesting
- A reverse record pointing at a bare domain is a shortcut somebody took once. It resolves, it identifies the customer, and it breaks the convention that a hostname names a machine.
- Three brands across one record, in the netnames, in two reverse zones and in the holder field, is the usual arithmetic of a hosting company that grew by buying smaller ones. Every acquisition brings a domain, and the domains are the last thing to be retired.
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 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS24961 | WIIT AG | 174 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 13.31K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IT | Italy | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS16297- Registry name
- WIIT-IT-AS
- Registrant
- AONET-IT-MNT
- Abuse contact
- network.management@wiit.it
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2021-10-11
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS16297
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS16297
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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