Autonomous system
AS6776 THENET Bern, Switzerland
Residential RIPE
Summary
TheNet - Internet Services AG
isp enterprise legacy
THENET — TheNet - Internet Services AG, a business-focused internet service provider headquartered in Bern, Switzerland.
What it's used for
- Business connectivity across Switzerland (VDSL through fibre, plus wireless access), SIP/vPBX telephony, and hosted services for corporate customers.
- Reverse DNS on the announced blocks is named-host style (
BernTS3.thenet.ch,regula.thenet.ch) — servers and business assignments, not consumer DSL pools.
Notable
- TheNet describes itself as Switzerland's oldest commercial ISP, trading since 1993, and has run its own infrastructure throughout.
- B2B, not eyeball: despite being registered in PeeringDB under a generic "Cable/DSL/ISP" type, the customer base is businesses rather than households.
Interesting
- The network is regional in scope but has held its four-digit AS number since the earliest days of commercial Swiss internet service.
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 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| SwissIX | Zurich, Switzerland | 91.206.52.35 |
| CERN IXP / Equinix Internet Exchange Geneva | Geneva, Switzerland | 192.65.185.194 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Zurich | Zurich, Switzerland | 194.42.48.17 |
Transit providers
8 upstream, 0 downstream and 12 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 14 prefixes · 6.40K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CH | Switzerland | 15 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6776- Registry name
- THENET
- Registrant
- MNT-AS-THENET
- Abuse contact
- abuse@thenet.ch
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 94% valid · 16 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 17 authorising AS6776
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 17 of 17 announcements
- Route objects
- 18 naming AS6776
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 1,773 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