AS3214 XTOM xTom GmbH

XTOM is xTom GmbH, the German arm of the xTom group — an IP transit, network,

and hosting provider based in Düsseldorf.

What it's used for

• IP transit and network services, with upstreams including Telia, Orange, and Tata, and peering at DE-CIX (Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich), AMS-IX, LINX, LocIX, and FRYS-IX.
• Hosting and colocation infrastructure for the group's customers.

Notable

• The aut-num object publishes a full BGP community scheme — per-upstream tagging, prepend controls, selective announcement, and a 3214:666 blackhole community — which is the signature of a transit provider rather than an end-user network.
• This is a hosting and carrier address footprint: the roughly 22,000 IPv4 addresses sit in data centres, not on subscriber lines.

Interesting

• The low AS number was reissued to a modern holder — xTom's RIPE registration for it dates from 2015, so there is no early-internet pedigree behind this operator's use of AS3214.