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Autonomous system

AS212660 WHG-DXB1

Hosting RIPE

IPv4 addresses 512 1 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly GB
Exchanges 1 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 2 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

WHG Hosting Services Ltd

United Arab Emirates · AI-generated

hosting shared-hosting middle-east

The Dubai point of presence of WHG Hosting Services Ltd, trading as hosting.com, and the smallest ASN in the family by a wide margin.

What it's used for

Shared web hosting and VPS. The ASN announces just 2 IPv4 prefixes, 198.38.94.0/24 and 198.38.95.0/24, totalling 512 addresses. No IPv6 is announced.

Notable

  • Netnames are WHG-DXB1-1 and WHG-DXB1-2, and nothing else. The dxb1 site code matches the AS name.
  • Infrastructure answers as h102.dxb1.whgi.net on the operator's own domain.
  • Five upstreams: AS286, AS3257, AS6939, AS17557 and AS35280. No customer ASNs.
  • Both prefixes sit inside 198.38.80.0/20, a range the group carves up across several of its sites rather than dedicating to one.

Interesting

  • One of the few hosts that answers a PTR returns vps.windows-dom.local. The .local suffix is reserved for local networks and cannot resolve publicly, so an internal Windows domain name has escaped into public reverse DNS.
  • With only 512 addresses, very few hosts answer at all, which makes the reverse DNS evidence here thinner than anywhere else in the family. The classification rests mainly on the registry chain and the shared whgi.net infrastructure naming.

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

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.

ExchangeLocationTheir address
UAE-IXDubai, United Arab Emirates185.1.8.62

Transit providers

2 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLC72
AS3257GTT Communications Inc.56

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 1 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
GBUnited Kingdom1

Registry

Allocation record

RIPE · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS212660
Registry name
WHG-DXB1
Registrant
lir-uk-whgi-1-MNT
Abuse contact
abuse@worldhost.group
Registered
2020-09-14
Last changed
2025-04-11
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
ROAs
2 authorising AS212660
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
Route objects
2 naming AS212660

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: 442 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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

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