Autonomous system
AS5605 NETUSE
Hosting APNIC Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
NetUSE AG
hosting legacy
NETUSE is the network of NetUSE AG, an IT services and hosting company headquartered in Kiel, northern Germany. It is one of the long-standing names in the German internet industry, and the AS peers openly at DE-CIX in Frankfurt and WORK-IX in Hamburg.
What it's used for
Managed IT, hosting and connectivity for German business customers. The announced inventory is around 140,000 addresses, dominated by two legacy /16s (149.214.0.0/16 and 149.215.0.0/16) plus a scatter of older /24s and a /19 — the address footprint of a provider that has been assigning space to customers for a long time.
Notable
Server and service space, not eyeball space. The open peering policy (peering@netuse.de) and IXP presence mark it as an operator that carries its own traffic rather than an end-site buying transit.
Interesting
The two 149.x /16s are classic pre-CIDR Class B allocations. Holdings like these are why an operator of NetUSE's size can announce far more addresses than a modern company of comparable revenue would ever be allocated today.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.192.17 |
| DE-CIX Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany | 185.1.210.23 |
Transit providers
23 upstream, 2 downstream and 37 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 2026-10-20, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 17 prefixes · 140K addresses IPv6 25 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 42 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS5605- Registry name
- NETUSE
- Registrant
- NU-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@netuse.de
- Registered
- 2002-09-23
- Last changed
- 2025-08-06
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- NetUSE AG
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-NETUSE- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- https://www.NetUSE.de/
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
- 62% valid · 8 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 35 authorising AS5605
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 13 of 13 announcements
- Route objects
- 44 naming AS5605
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 1,778 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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