Autonomous system
AS680 DFN Verein zur Foerderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e.V.
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
DFN (German National Research and Education Network)
education research legacy
The Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN), Germany's national research and education
network, run by the Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e.V.
What it's used for
- Connecting German universities and research institutions to a shared national research network (an NREN).
Notable
- A research / education network serving institutions, not a commercial ISP.
- Holds a very large legacy IPv4 footprint reflecting its role connecting the German research community.
- The low AS number reflects an allocation from the internet's earliest years.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 530 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS680- Registry name
- DFN
- Registrant
- DFN-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@dfn.de
- Registered
- 2002-09-20
- Last changed
- 2026-05-18
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere