Autonomous system
AS57043 HOSTKEY-AS
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Hostkey
hosting business netherlands
HOSTKEY-AS is operated by Hostkey B.V.
What it's used for
- The address space carries hosting and infrastructure services, evidenced by netnames such as
NL-HOSTKEY-20120516andNL-HOSTKEY-20101018registered to Hostkey B.V. - The AS announces 149,760 IPv4 addresses across 450 prefixes and 9 IPv6 prefixes, with 193 observed neighbours, indicating a role focused on hosting and transit peering rather than residential access.
- Traffic from this AS consists of dedicated server, colocation, and VPS endpoints for business customers, consistent with Hostkey’s operations as a Netherlands-based hosting provider.
Notable
- Registrants for the majority of prefixes align with the announcer, listing Hostkey B.V. as the registrant for blocks like
5.39.216.0/21and46.17.96.0/21. - Some prefixes show different registrants, such as
82.38.64.0/22registered to Internet Utilities and89.125.0.0/22registered to RCS Technologies FZE LLC, suggesting leased or historically acquired space. - The inventory includes a mix of /21 and /22 blocks, with some prefixes dating back to 2001, reflecting a long-standing and expanded address estate.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 11 exchanges in 6 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.212.7 |
| Giganet Internet Exchange | Kyiv, Ukraine | 185.1.63.159 |
| The Frys Internet Exchange | Frysian, Netherlands | 2001:7f8:10f::ded3:8 |
| Speed Internet Exchange | Dronten, Netherlands | 185.1.222.92 |
| SwissIX | Zurich, Switzerland | 91.206.53.44 |
| InterIX Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2001:7f8:134::55 |
| DE-CIX Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 185.1.192.191 |
| ERA-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 185.1.240.74 |
Transit providers
43 upstream, 20 downstream and 101 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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 478 prefixes · 157K addresses IPv6 9 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NL | Netherlands | 487 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS57043- Registry name
- HOSTKEY-AS
- Registrant
- HOSTKEY-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@hostkey.nl
- Registered
- 2011-07-07
- Last changed
- 2025-02-18
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 95% valid · 617 valid, 23 with no ROA 8 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 697 authorising AS57043
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 96% registered · 623 of 648 announcements 25 other origin
- Route objects
- 971 naming AS57043
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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