Autonomous system
AS46873 HOSTCOLOR
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Host Color
hosting dedicated cloud edge
HOSTCOLOR is operated by Host Color.
What it's used for
- The address space carries dedicated hosting and cloud infrastructure, evidenced by netnames like
AS46873-HOSTCOLOR-NEW-YORKandAS46873-HOSTCOLOR-DALLAS, and reverse DNS entries such asstatic-128.hostcolor.net. - With 3,328 IPv4 addresses announced across 9 prefixes and only 4 observed neighbours, the network functions as a hosting provider with a limited transit footprint.
- Traffic from this AS consists of bare-metal servers, VPS instances, and edge infrastructure endpoints for customers requiring dedicated hosting services.
Notable
- Registrants include
Host Color LLCandRAX.BG EOOD, with the latter appearing on several prefixes including45.84.192.0/22and45.153.108.0/24. - The address inventory is subdivided by geographic location, with distinct /24 blocks assigned to specific data centers in New York, Chicago, Ashburn, and Dallas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.225 |
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 10 prefixes · 3.84K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 10 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS46873- Registry name
- BETTER-THAN-CLOUD
- Registrant
- Host Color
- Abuse contact
- abuse@hostcolor.com
- Registered
- 2009-04-09
- Last changed
- 2026-08-10
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 15 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 20 authorising AS46873
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 15 of 15 announcements
- Route objects
- 32 naming AS46873
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 1,773 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