Autonomous system
AS47474 VIRTUAL1
Unclassified RIPE NSP
Summary
Virtual1
nsp uk wholesale fibre
The AS handle VIRTUAL1 is held by Virtual1 Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space carries wholesale and enterprise connectivity, evidenced by netnames such as
UK-VIRTUAL1-20060406andUK-VIRTUAL1-940210, and reverse DNS entries pointing tovirtual1.co.uk. - The AS announces 153,344 IPv4 addresses across 16 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, with 13 observed neighbours, indicating a role as a network service provider (NSP) rather than a large-scale residential access network.
- Traffic from this AS consists of wholesale fibre backhaul, enterprise connectivity, and data centre interconnects, consistent with Virtual1's business model of providing high-capacity fibre infrastructure to other ISPs and businesses.
Notable
- Registrants for the largest prefixes consistently list
Virtual1 LimitedandVirtual1 Network Operations, aligning with the AS announcer. - Virtual1 was acquired by CityFibre, a UK telecoms company, following the departure of founder Tom O'Hagan.
- The inventory includes a mix of large blocks like
89.197.0.0/16and smaller /21 and /22 allocations, reflecting a diverse portfolio of acquired and allocated address space.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.109 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 11 downstream and 13 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS13285 | TalkTalk Communications Limited | 997 |
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 16 prefixes · 153K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 17 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS47474- Registry name
- Virtual1
- Registrant
- MNT-VIRTUAL1
- Abuse contact
- abuse-reports@pxc.co.uk
- Registered
- 2008-06-24
- Last changed
- 2026-10-06
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Virtual1 Ltd
- Also known as
- Virtual1 Limited
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- No
- IRR as-set
AS-VIRTUAL1- Website
- http://www.virtual1.com/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 76% valid · 13 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 14 authorising AS47474
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 17 of 17 announcements
- Route objects
- 22 naming AS47474
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: 432 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