Autonomous system
AS7489 HOSTUS-GLOBAL-AS HostUS
Hosting APNIC
Summary
HostUS
hosting legacy
HOSTUS-GLOBAL-AS is the network of HostUS, a budget VPS and dedicated-server provider selling OpenVZ and KVM virtual machines out of roughly ten data centres across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
What it's used for
- Virtual private servers, shared cPanel hosting and dedicated servers. HostUS runs its own network rather than reselling, and this is one of two ASNs it uses.
- The address space is customer-facing hosting: reverse DNS across the range is a scatter of customer-chosen hostnames, the signature of VPS assignments rather than of an operator's own infrastructure.
Notable
- Announces around 76 IPv4 prefixes (about 20,000 addresses) and a substantially larger IPv6 footprint — a deliberately dispersed, many-
/24shape that suits a provider advertising presence in many cities at once. - The registered organisation address is
8 The Greenin Dover, Delaware — a shared registered-agent mail drop, not a facility. Treat it as a legal address, not a location clue.
Interesting
- The AS number was reissued: the APNIC registration dates to 2015, so despite sitting in the 7000s, this network has no early-internet pedigree. Low AS numbers freed up by defunct holders get recycled, and a cheap-VPS provider is exactly the sort of network that ends up with one.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.226.212 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 2 downstream and 19 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 52 prefixes · 20.22K addresses IPv6 22 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HK | Hong Kong | 74 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS7489- Registry name
- HOSTUS-GLOBAL-AS
- Registrant
- HostUS
- Abuse contact
- abuse@hostus.us
- Registered
- 2015-12-23
- Last changed
- 2023-09-05
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 31% valid · 30 valid, 68 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 81 authorising AS7489
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 98 of 98 announcements
- Route objects
- 777 naming AS7489
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: 440 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