Autonomous system
AS2818 BBC BBC Internet Services, UK
Hosting RIPE
Summary
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
enterprise legacy
The network of the BBC (BBC Internet Services), the United Kingdom's public service broadcaster.
What it's used for
- Internet and internal networking for the BBC's broadcasting and online services.
Notable
- A large media/broadcaster's own network rather than a commercial ISP or host.
Interesting
- A 1990s-era RIPE allocation held by the BBC for its online presence.
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 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.226.229 |
| London Network Access Point | London, United Kingdom | 5.57.80.90 |
| LINX Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 195.66.244.59 |
| LINX Scotland | Scotland, United Kingdom | 195.66.246.25 |
Transit providers
25 upstream, 0 downstream and 38 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 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 69.63K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS2818- Registry name
- BBC
- Registrant
- BBC-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@bbc.co.uk
- Registered
- 2002-09-19
- Last changed
- 2026-09-25
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 7 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS2818
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 78 naming AS2818
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 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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