Autonomous system
AS5089 NTL
Residential RIPE
Summary
Virgin Media (UK)
isp cable eyeball
Virgin Media (NTL) — the UK's largest cable-broadband operator, now part of Virgin Media O2.
What it's used for
- Cable (and increasingly fibre) home broadband across the UK, plus business services.
Notable
- An "eyeball" network of UK residential subscribers. The
NTLhandle reflects its origin as the cable operator NTL, later rebranded Virgin Media. - Runs its own cable access plant rather than reselling BT Openreach lines.
Interesting
- Virgin Media's cable network long offered some of the fastest widely available UK home broadband because it didn't depend on legacy phone-line DSL.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.22 |
| LINX Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 195.66.244.33 |
Transit providers
8 upstream, 57 downstream and 70 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 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 118 prefixes · 8.49M addresses IPv6 13 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 131 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5089- Registry name
- NTL
- Registrant
- AS5089-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@virginmediao2.co.uk
- Registered
- 2002-08-15
- Last changed
- 2026-07-23
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 91% valid · 261 valid, 27 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 249 authorising AS5089
- ASPA
- 2 declared providers
- IRR
- 99.7% registered · 287 of 288 announcements
- Route objects
- 302 naming AS5089
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 447 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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