Autonomous system
AS25516 INIT-AS
Hosting RIPE
Summary
init AG
transit business germany
The AS handle INIT-AS is held by init AG fuer digitale Kommunikation.
What it's used for
- The address space carries corporate and leased infrastructure, evidenced by netnames
DE-POLIDIA-20140226andDE-COLT-INITassociated with registrants includinginit AG fuer digitale KommunikationandCOLT Germany Hostmaster. - With 2048 IPv4 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefix announced against 103 observed neighbours, the high neighbour-to-address ratio indicates a transit or peering role rather than an access network.
Notable
- Registrants for the announced prefixes include
init AG fuer digitale Kommunikation,Gutcon RIPE Department, andCOLT Germany Hostmaster, showing shared or leased space management. - The inventory consists of two IPv4 /22 blocks and one IPv6 /45, all located in Germany.
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
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.196.6 |
| Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange | Berlin, Germany | 193.178.185.99 |
Transit providers
16 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 2 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS25516- Registry name
- INIT-AS
- Registrant
- ALL-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@all.de
- Registered
- 2002-12-18
- Last changed
- 2024-08-13
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 50% valid · 2 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS25516
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 12 naming AS25516
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