Autonomous system
AS63018 DEDICATED
Hosting DROP-listed space ARIN
Summary
Dedicated.com
hosting colocation dedicated-servers
The AS handle DEDICATED is held by Dedicated.com.
What it's used for
- The address space carries hosting and colocation infrastructure, evidenced by netnames such as
USD-NET-64-42-176-0,INAP-LAX-USD-64-74-160-0, andACE-NETWORK-4. - The AS announces 42,240 IPv4 addresses across 82 prefixes and 4 IPv6 prefixes, with 23 observed neighbours, indicating a hosting provider with significant upstream connectivity.
- Traffic from this AS consists of dedicated server instances, cloud hosting endpoints, and colocation backhaul for customers requiring DDoS mitigation and high-bandwidth connectivity.
Notable
- Registrants for the largest prefixes are predominantly Dedicated.com, though some blocks are registered to End of Reality LLC, Ace Data Centers, Inc., and RCS Technologies FZE LLC.
- The address inventory is finely subdivided into numerous /22 and /23 blocks, reflecting a segmented corporate estate for different service tiers or acquisition history.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| CANIX Internet Exchange - Montreal | Montreal, Canada | 198.179.18.152 |
Transit providers
10 upstream, 10 downstream and 39 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 85 prefixes · 43.78K addresses IPv6 4 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 89 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS63018- Registry name
- DEDICATED
- Registrant
- Dedicated.com
- Abuse contact
- admin@dedicated.com
- Registered
- 2013-12-30
- Last changed
- 2019-09-17
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 34% valid · 56 valid, 107 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 56 authorising AS63018
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99% registered · 161 of 163 announcements
- Route objects
- 242 naming AS63018
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.
3 DROP matches Announced space overlapping the DROP prefix list.
| Announced | DROP entry | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 168.80.12.0/22 | 168.80.0.0/15 | SBL458208 |
| 168.81.60.0/22 | 168.80.0.0/15 | SBL458208 |
| 196.19.198.0/23 | 196.16.0.0/14 | SBL364590 |
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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