Autonomous system
AS62296 VITALNG
Hosting RIPE Content
Summary
Vital Network Group
usenet hosting business
VITALNG is operated by Vital Network Group, LLC.
What it's used for
- The address space carries Usenet and content delivery traffic, as indicated by the operator's association with UsenetExpress and the netname
US-VITALNG-20160506. - The AS announces 1024 IPv4 addresses across 1 prefix and 2 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining 59 observed neighbours. This ratio of limited address space to high peering density indicates a transit or interconnection role rather than a large-scale access network.
- Traffic from this AS consists of Usenet newsgroup data, web/API endpoints, and content delivery services for global Usenet providers.
Notable
- The RDAP registrant
Vital Network Group, LLCmatches the AS holder, confirming consistent ownership of the announced space. - The operator is also known as Express Network Group and UsenetExpress, reflecting its primary business focus on Usenet infrastructure.
- The inventory consists of a single IPv4 block (
185.151.12.0/22) and two IPv6 prefixes, representing a compact, dedicated estate for its specific service offerings.
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 5 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.239.209 |
| The Frys Internet Exchange | Frysian, Netherlands | 2001:7f8:10f::f358:73 |
| Speed Internet Exchange | Dronten, Netherlands | 185.1.222.129 |
| Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange | Fremont, United States | 206.80.238.132 |
| LayerSwitch Internet Exchange | The Hague, Netherlands | 185.1.32.9 |
Transit providers
12 upstream, 0 downstream and 18 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 1 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS62296- Registry name
- vitalng
- Registrant
- Vital Network Group, LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@vitalng.com
- Registered
- 2016-05-06
- Last changed
- 2021-12-28
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Vital Network Group
- Also known as
- Express Network Group / UsenetExpress
- Network type
- Content
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Outbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- Present at
- 4 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://www.usenetexpress.com
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
- 100% valid · 7 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS62296
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS62296
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