Autonomous system
AS6717 AS6717 UK ISP
Residential RIPE
Summary
Internet Central
isp enterprise legacy
Internet Central Limited (ic.uk, formerly ic.net.uk) is a business-focused ISP based at Keele Science Park in Staffordshire. It was founded in 1995, making it one of the earlier commercial ISPs in the UK.
What it's used for
- Business connectivity — broadband, Ethernet and leased lines — sold to UK companies, alongside hosting, SIP/hosted telephony and IT security services.
- Reverse DNS across the space is infrastructure-shaped: core routers resolve as
w-cr2.ic.net.uk,lx-cr1.ic.net.ukand similar. There are no consumer subscriber pools here.
Notable
- This is a B2B network, not a consumer eyeball ISP. The company states it serves businesses only, and the inventory agrees: a handful of prefixes with router-style naming rather than the large dynamic pools a residential provider would need.
- Internet Central aggregates the access networks of the major UK carriers rather than building last-mile everywhere itself, which is the normal shape for a regional business ISP.
Interesting
- The company holds an individual UK telecoms licence with code powers, allowing it to build its own infrastructure — a meaningful distinction for an ISP of its size, and one it acquired early.
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 | 195.66.226.14 |
| LINX Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 195.66.244.26 |
Transit providers
20 upstream, 0 downstream and 23 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 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 18.43K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6717- Registry name
- AS6717
- Registrant
- AS6717-MNT
- Abuse contact
- noc@netcentral.co.uk
- Registered
- 2002-09-02
- Last changed
- 2025-06-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6717
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 15 naming AS6717
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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