Autonomous system
AS45014 HOSTIT-MK-AS Milton Keynes Facility
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
nLighten
hosting isp business
HOSTIT-MK-AS is operated by nLighten, a UK-based hosting and internet service provider formerly known as Nuco Technologies Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries hosting and business connectivity, evidenced by reverse DNS entries pointing to
rdns.host-it.co.ukandrdns.mkdc.co.uk, alongside netnames such asUK-NUCO-TECHNOLOGIESandHost-IT. - The AS announces 18,944 IPv4 addresses across 25 prefixes and 4 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining 139 observed neighbours; this ratio of moderate address space against a high neighbour count indicates a role focused on transit and interconnection rather than large-scale residential access.
- Traffic from this AS consists of web and API endpoints, dedicated hosting servers, and business connectivity for clients utilizing the provider's data centre and hosting services.
Notable
- Registrants for the majority of prefixes are listed as
nLighten Network Operations; Nuco Technologies Ltd, aligning with the current operator identity, while one prefix (193.142.192.0/22) is registered toIS Oxford Ltd. - The operator rebranded from Nuco Technologies Ltd to nLighten, a transformation highlighted in their 2024 brand update, and previously acquired the hosting assets of Bucks Net Services Ltd in 2021.
- The inventory includes a mix of /21, /22, /23, and /24 blocks, with some prefixes retaining legacy netnames from the Nuco Technologies era.
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 3 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.225.55 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.212.209 |
| London Network Access Point | London, United Kingdom | 5.57.81.67 |
Transit providers
34 upstream, 7 downstream and 55 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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 26 prefixes · 19.46K addresses IPv6 4 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 30 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS45014- Registry name
- NCONNECT
- Registrant
- MNT-NUCO-LTD
- Abuse contact
- abuse@nlighten.com
- Registered
- 2008-04-21
- Last changed
- 2025-10-13
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 94% valid · 34 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 32 authorising AS45014
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 36 of 36 announcements
- Route objects
- 81 naming AS45014
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 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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