Autonomous system
AS6908 DATAHOP Datahop - Six Degrees
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Six Degrees Technology Group Limited (Datahop)
hosting legacy
DATAHOP is the network of Six Degrees Technology Group Limited, a UK managed-services and cloud provider. Datahop began as a London metro network and became the backbone AS of the Six Degrees group.
What it's used for
- Colocation, private cloud and managed hosting for UK business customers, plus the connectivity that fronts it (direct internet access, managed WAN/SD-WAN).
- Around 48 IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes covering roughly 100k addresses, carried across UK and European data-centre sites.
Notable
- Peers publicly at LINX (London and Manchester), LONAP, AMS-IX, DE-CIX and Equinix exchanges — a peering footprint typical of a mid-sized provider network rather than an enterprise.
- The Six Degrees group was assembled from a set of smaller UK hosting and connectivity businesses, with Datahop supplying the underlying network; the
DATAHOPhandle survives as the fossil of that origin.
Interesting
- Six Degrees has since been acquired by Claranet, another UK managed-services provider, though the ASN remains registered to the Six Degrees entity.
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 6 exchanges in 4 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 2001:7f8::1afc:0:1 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.225.32 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.209.145 |
| London Network Access Point | London, United Kingdom | 5.57.81.21 |
| DE-CIX New York | New York, United States | 206.82.104.13 |
| LINX Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 195.66.244.13 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 45 prefixes · 104K addresses IPv6 5 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 50 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6908- Registry name
- DATAHOP
- Registrant
- DATAHOP-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@6dg.co.uk
- Registered
- 2006-01-10
- Last changed
- 2026-07-13
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 92% valid · 45 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 57 authorising AS6908
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 49 of 49 announcements
- Route objects
- 75 naming AS6908
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: 442 networks and 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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