Autonomous system
AS49418 AS-NETSHIELD
Unclassified Spamhaus ASN-DROP RIPE
Summary
Netshield
transit nsp uk
AS-NETSHIELD is operated by Netshield Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries transit and network services, evidenced by netnames such as
NETSHIELD-TRANSIT-SERVICEandnetshield-transitassociated with the 212.192.250.0/24 and 212.192.255.0/24 prefixes. - The AS announces 2048 IPv4 addresses across 8 prefixes and 8 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining 64 observed neighbours; this ratio of limited address inventory to high peering density indicates a transit or network service provider role.
- Traffic from this AS consists of routed internet traffic for clients and partners, consistent with Netshield's function as a managed ICT services provider and NSP.
Notable
- All registrants for the announced prefixes are listed as
NETSHIELD LTD, which aligns with the AS holderAS-NETSHIELD NETSHIELD LTD. - Netshield Ltd is a private limited company incorporated in the United Kingdom in 2023, providing proactive ICT services on-premise and in the cloud.
- The inventory consists of eight distinct /24 IPv4 blocks and eight IPv6 prefixes, including a large /42 block, suggesting a modular allocation strategy for service delivery.
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
16 upstream, 16 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 8 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 8 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 16 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS49418- Registry name
- AS-NETSHIELD
- Registrant
- netshield-mnt
- Abuse contact
- abuse@netshield.ltd
- Registered
- 2023-12-29
- Last changed
- 2026-05-30
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 92% valid · 12 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 19 authorising AS49418
- ASPA
- 6 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 13 of 13 announcements
- Route objects
- 33 naming AS49418
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
On Spamhaus ASN-DROP Spamhaus lists this entire
network (associated domain chosting.solutions)
as controlled by, or hijacked for, cybercrime. Many operators null-route
everything it originates.
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: 440 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