Autonomous system
AS201409 HOSTSHIELD
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
HostShield
hosting ias vps dedicated
HOSTSHIELD is operated by HostShield Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries hosting infrastructure, evidenced by netnames
UK-HOSTSHIELD-20240112,HOSTSH-193-142-59-0, andHOSTSHIELD_LTD. - The AS announces 768 IPv4 addresses across 3 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, with only 1 observed neighbour, indicating a small-scale hosting provider rather than a transit or access network.
- Traffic from this AS consists of web hosting, VPS, and dedicated server endpoints for customers, consistent with HostShield's business as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider.
Notable
- Registrants across all prefixes consistently identify HostShield Ltd, matching the AS holder.
- The address inventory is small and finely subdivided into three /24 blocks, typical of a boutique hosting provider managing specific server ranges.
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, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS213438 | ColocaTel Inc. | 183 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-28, 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 · 768 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS201409- Registry name
- hostshield
- Registrant
- lir-uk-hostshield-1-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@hostshield.net
- Registered
- 2022-11-14
- Last changed
- 2022-11-14
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 67% valid · 2 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS201409
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS201409
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: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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