Autonomous system
AS3233 ICI-ROTLD Romanian National R&D Network
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
ICI Bucharest (National Institute for R&D in Informatics)
education research legacy
ICI-ROTLD belongs to the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI) in Bucharest, Romania — a state research institute that also operates the RoTLD registry for the .ro top-level domain.
What it's used for
- Research and academic networking for the institute and the Romanian national R&D network it has long carried.
- Registry operations for
.ro, including the RoTLD systems and the DNS infrastructure behind the Romanian national domain.
Notable
- Institutional address space: roughly 105,000 IPv4 addresses serving a research institute and national infrastructure, not commercial subscribers.
- Combining an NREN role with running a country-code TLD registry in one ASN is unusual — most countries split those functions across separate organisations.
Interesting
- ICI was the organisation that brought Romania onto the internet, which is why a single institute's ASN sits this low and carries the national domain registry alongside it.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| InterLAN-IX | Bucharest, Romania | 86.104.125.145 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 29 prefixes · 105K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RO | Romania | 30 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS3233- Registry name
- ICI-ROTLD
- Registrant
- AS3233-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@lir.ro
- Registered
- 2002-05-17
- Last changed
- 2025-09-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 39% valid · 12 valid, 19 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 162 authorising AS3233
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 97% registered · 30 of 31 announcements
- Route objects
- 248 naming AS3233
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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