Autonomous system
AS16339 VI-UK
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Virtual Internet (UK)
hosting isp business
Three contacts on one block, and each of them is a different company.
What it's used for
- A hosting company's network. A single IPv4 prefix announced from the United Kingdom, no IPv6, two hundred and fifty-six addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The block lists three entries. The first is the holder, under its full registered name with the country abbreviation in brackets. The second is a two-character brand that appears nowhere else. The third is a three-letter abbreviation with the registry's own field name for an abuse contact stuck on the end.
- None of the three shares a word with either of the others.
- The netname is a country code, the holder's initials, and a date written with a two-digit year, so it is the only field that agrees with the holder at all.
- The AS handle is those same two initials and the country abbreviation, which makes it the shortest label in the record and the least searchable.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Hosting companies get bought, and the buyer inherits the registry entries rather than rewriting them. Three unrelated names on one block is what two acquisitions look like from the outside.
- Appending a schema field name to a contact label happens when someone copies the form's own wording into the answer. It is small, wrong, and permanent.
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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, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS13213 | THG HOSTING LIMITED | 59 |
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 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS16339- Registry name
- VI-UK
- Registrant
- Virtual Internet (UK) Limited
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ingenuitycloudservices.com
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2026-01-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS16339
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS16339
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 1,783 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