Autonomous system
AS22612 NAMECHEAP-NET
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Namecheap
hosting vps
Namecheap, Inc. is a large US domain registrar that also sells shared, VPS, and dedicated hosting. This ASN carries part of its hosting infrastructure.
What it's used for
- Shared web hosting, VPS, and reseller hosting, often tied to Namecheap- registered domains.
Notable
- An IP here is Namecheap-as-host across many small customer sites. Namecheap also resells third-party datacenter capacity for some products, so the exact facility behind an IP varies.
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
13 upstream, 0 downstream and 17 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
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
IPv4 45 prefixes · 83.26K addresses IPv6 34 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 79 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS22612- Registry name
- NAMECHEAP-NET
- Registrant
- Namecheap, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@namecheaphosting.com
- Registered
- 2011-06-21
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 342 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 38 authorising AS22612
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 83% registered · 283 of 342 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 133 naming AS22612
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 1,773 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