Autonomous system
AS6866 CYTA-NETWORK Internet Services
Residential RIPE
Summary
Cyta (Cyprus Telecommunications Authority)
isp legacy
CYTA-NETWORK is the main autonomous system of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta), the island's incumbent, state-owned telecommunications operator.
What it's used for
- Retail internet access for Cyprus. This is Cyta's eyeball network, carrying the bulk of the country's fixed broadband subscribers along with business connectivity and Cyta's own service platforms.
Notable
- Reverse DNS makes the subscriber character of the space obvious: consumer broadband customers resolve under
internethome.cytanet.com.cy, and the wider access pools sit undernetrun.cytanet.com.cy. - With well over half a million IPv4 addresses across roughly 160 prefixes, plus substantial IPv6, this is by a wide margin the largest single network in Cyprus and effectively the country's default route for households.
Interesting
- Cyta also operates internationally through subsidiaries and landing stations, which is why the same brand appears on submarine-cable and wholesale services in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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 8 exchanges in 7 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.193.153 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.226.205 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.211.198 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.238.37 |
| MSK-IX Moscow | Moscow, Russia | 195.208.208.188 |
| Bulgarian Internet eXchange | Sofia, Bulgaria | 193.169.198.71 |
| France-IX Marseille | Marseille, France | 37.49.232.69 |
| Greek Internet Exchange - Athens | Athens, Greece | 176.126.38.7 |
Transit providers
32 upstream, 31 downstream and 83 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 91 prefixes · 541K addresses IPv6 39 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CY | Cyprus | 130 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6866- Registry name
- CYTA-NETWORK
- Registrant
- CYTANET-NOC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@cytanet.com.cy
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2026-08-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 97% valid · 156 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 163 authorising AS6866
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 161 of 161 announcements
- Route objects
- 304 naming AS6866
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: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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