Autonomous system
AS6718 NAV NAV Communications
Hosting RIPE
Summary
NAV Communications
hosting datacenter legacy
NAV Communications SRL is a Romanian hosting and data-centre operator based in Bucharest, running under the handle NAV. It has been in business since the late 1990s and operates its own facility rather than reselling someone else's.
What it's used for
- Colocation, dedicated servers and cloud/VPS hosting out of the company's own Bucharest data centre.
- Serving thousands of hosted domains across the address space, plus DDoS scrubbing for its customers.
Notable
- The inventory reads exactly like a hosting network: several dozen scattered /24s drawn from many different ranges, a large fan of separate IPv6 /32s, and essentially no reverse DNS on the sampled addresses. Servers get PTRs when a customer bothers to set one; access networks get them by default.
- It buys transit from several upstreams and peers at Romanian and international exchanges — normal for a content/hosting network that needs to be reachable cheaply from everywhere.
Interesting
- Romania has an unusually dense population of independent hosting companies relative to its size, and NAV is one of the long-lived ones — it predates most of the country's current hosting market.
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 3 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NetIX | Sofia, Bulgaria | 185.1.226.217 |
| Peering.cz | Prague, Czech Republic | 2001:7f8:7f::54 |
| InterLAN-IX | Bucharest, Romania | 86.104.125.55 |
Transit providers
10 upstream, 3 downstream and 22 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 24 prefixes · 10.50K addresses IPv6 4 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RO | Romania | 28 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6718- Registry name
- NAV
- Registrant
- AS6718-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@nav.ro
- Registered
- 2009-07-24
- Last changed
- 2025-12-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 98% valid · 56 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 59 authorising AS6718
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 57 of 57 announcements
- Route objects
- 59 naming AS6718
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