Autonomous system
AS40728 GEARHOST
Hosting ARIN
Summary
GearHost
hosting cloud business
GEARHOST is the AS handle for GearHost, Inc.
What it's used for
- The address space carries cloud hosting infrastructure, with netnames
GEAR-IPV4-1,GEAR-IPV4-2, andGEAR-IPV4-3all registered to GearHost, Inc. - The network announces 12,288 IPv4 addresses across 3 prefixes and maintains 1 observed neighbour, a ratio consistent with a hosting provider rather than a transit carrier.
- Traffic from this AS consists of web and API endpoints for .NET, PHP, and Node.js applications hosted on GearHost's cloud platform.
Notable
- All three announced prefixes list GearHost, Inc. as the registrant, matching the AS holder.
- The address inventory consists of three contiguous /20 blocks, indicating a compact and uniform allocation.
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
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS29863 | Latisys-Denver, LLC | 180 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-22, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 12.29K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS40728- Registry name
- GEARHOST
- Registrant
- GearHost, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- support@gearhost.com
- Registered
- 2008-03-04
- Last changed
- 2012-03-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS40728
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS40728
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-23. 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