Autonomous system
AS29457 OPTIONS-AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Options Technology
business hosting finance infrastructure
OPTIONS-AS is operated by Options Technology Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries corporate and data centre infrastructure, evidenced by netnames such as
UK-OPTIONS-20030820andUK-OPTIONS-980105registered to Options Technology Ltd. - With 12,544 IPv4 addresses and 15 IPv6 prefixes announced against 20 observed neighbours, the inventory suggests a business network providing IT infrastructure services rather than a large-scale residential access provider.
Notable
- Registrants largely align with the announcer, with most prefixes registered to Options Technology Ltd, though one prefix (
185.28.32.0/23) is registered to Fixnetix Ltd. - Options Technology acquired Packets2Disk, which subsequently rebranded as AtlasInsight, integrating the network monitoring service into the Options Technology portfolio.
- The inventory includes a mix of /21, /22, and /23 prefixes, with some blocks dating back to 1994 and 1998, indicating a long-established corporate estate.
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
18 upstream, 1 downstream and 21 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 2026-10-19, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 20 prefixes · 12.54K addresses IPv6 15 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 35 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS29457- Registry name
- OPTIONS-AS
- Registrant
- OPTIONS-MNT
- Abuse contact
- ipabuse@options-it.com
- Registered
- 2003-09-16
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Options Technology LTD (Options IT)
- Also known as
- Options IT , Options Technology
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- Facilities
- 30 facilities
- Website
- http://www.options-it.com/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 3% valid · 2 valid, 57 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS29457
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 90% registered · 53 of 59 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 94 naming AS29457
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: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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