Autonomous system
AS48173 UNBELIEVABLE-AS
Hosting RIPE
Summary
The unbelievable Machine Company
business enterprise cloud germany
UNBELIEVABLE-AS is operated by Orange Business Digital Germany GmbH.
What it's used for
- The address space carries enterprise and cloud infrastructure, evidenced by the netname
DE-UNBELIEVABLE-20120808and reverse DNS entries likeum-net-5-179-232-0-24.unbelievable-machine.net. - The AS announces 40,448 IPv4 addresses across 26 prefixes and 2 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining 119 observed neighbours; this high neighbour count relative to the address inventory indicates a transit or peering-heavy role rather than a pure access network.
- Traffic from this AS consists of business-to-business connectivity, cloud service endpoints, and enterprise backhaul for Orange Business’s digital transformation and IT services portfolio.
Notable
- Registrants for the majority of prefixes are
Orange Business Digital Germany GmbH, withOptimizely GmbHlisted for the91.241.72.0/22block, indicating a mix of owned and potentially leased or partner space. - The operator was formerly known as The unbelievable Machine Company, a joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and Orange, before being fully integrated into the Orange Business structure.
- The inventory is finely subdivided into numerous /21 and /22 blocks, consistent with an internal corporate estate segmented by site or service division.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 3 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.193.68 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.209.39 |
| Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange | Berlin, Germany | 193.178.185.10 |
Transit providers
26 upstream, 2 downstream and 41 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 2026-10-18, 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 · 40.45K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 28 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS48173- Registry name
- UNBELIEVABLE-AS
- Registrant
- Orange Business Digital Germany GmbH
- Abuse contact
- abuse@unbelievable-machine.com
- Registered
- 2008-10-21
- Last changed
- 2026-04-14
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 38 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 32 authorising AS48173
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 38 of 38 announcements
- Route objects
- 53 naming AS48173
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: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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