Autonomous system
AS55081 24SHELLS
Hosting ARIN
Summary
24Shells
hosting colocation dedicated transit
The AS handle 24SHELLS is held by 24Shells, Inc.
What it's used for
- The address space carries hosting and colocation infrastructure, evidenced by registrant netnames
DWNL(Data World Net) andHWNL(Host World Net LLC) alongside the primary24SHELLSnetname. - The AS announces 34,560 IPv4 addresses across 31 prefixes and 5 IPv6 prefixes, maintaining 32 observed neighbours; this ratio indicates a hosting and transit provider rather than a pure access network.
- Traffic from this AS consists of dedicated server workloads, colocation tenants, and IP transit services, consistent with 24Shells' business model of providing self-managed dedicated servers and open internet infrastructure.
Notable
- Registrants include Data World Net, Host World Net LLC, and 24 SHELLS, indicating the AS aggregates address space from multiple related entities or historical acquisitions.
- 24Shells operates as a global provider of business and open internet infrastructure with data centers in the United States.
- The inventory includes a mix of /20, /21, /22, /23, and /24 prefixes, with the largest block being 23.227.128.0/20.
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 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.227.116 |
| New York International Internet Exchange | New York, United States | 198.32.160.135 |
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 34 prefixes · 34.56K addresses IPv6 5 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 39 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS55081- Registry name
- 24SHELLS
- Registrant
- 24 SHELLS
- Abuse contact
- abuse@24shells.net
- Registered
- 2013-03-01
- Last changed
- 2013-10-15
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 36% valid · 8 valid, 14 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 26 authorising AS55081
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 95% registered · 21 of 22 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 138 naming AS55081
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 1,772 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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