Autonomous system
AS62163 IPRIVER-AS
Hosting RIPE
Summary
IP River Limited
wholesale isp telecom uk
IPRIVER-AS is operated by IP River Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space carries wholesale connectivity and leased infrastructure, evidenced by netnames such as
UK-IPRIVER-20120724,NL-ACCESS2IT-20101122, andUK-ONE2CALL-20150508. - The AS announces 10,752 IPv4 addresses across 16 prefixes while maintaining 73 observed neighbours, a ratio indicative of a transit or wholesale network role rather than a direct access provider.
- As a UK wholesale ISP and network operator, the traffic consists of backhaul and interconnection for partner networks that sell connectivity to end-users.
Notable
- Registrants include IP River Limited, Access2.IT Group B.V., One2call Limited, and Cogent Communications, LLC, reflecting a mix of owned space and leased or acquired prefixes.
- The inventory includes prefixes originally registered to Cogent Communications, LLC, suggesting historical acquisition or long-term leasing of address space.
- The address inventory is fragmented across multiple /22 and /24 blocks, with no IPv6 prefixes announced.
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 | 195.66.225.154 |
| LINX Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 2001:7f8:4:2::f2d3:1 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 1 downstream and 8 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 2026-10-14, 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 · 11.26K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 17 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS62163- Registry name
- IPRIVER-AS
- Registrant
- IP River Limited
- Abuse contact
- peter@ipriver.net
- Registered
- 2014-01-21
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 23 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 24 authorising AS62163
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 96% registered · 22 of 23 announcements
- Route objects
- 32 naming AS62163
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