Autonomous system
AS8053 IFX Networks Venezuela C.A.
Hosting RIPE
Summary
IFX Networks Venezuela
hosting enterprise legacy
The Venezuelan arm of IFX Networks, a Latin American managed-services provider selling colocation, cloud, MPLS/SD-WAN connectivity and managed IT across the region.
What it's used for
- Dedicated internet access, colocation and hosted/cloud workloads for Venezuelan business customers. The core blocks —
190.94.192.0/19and181.225.32.0/19— resolve asIP-ADDR.ifxnw.com.veand are LACNIC-registered to IFX. - Corporate connectivity rather than consumer broadband: there are no dynamic or PPPoE-style subscriber pools anywhere in the inventory.
Notable
- An IP in the IFX-registered blocks is a business circuit or a hosted server in Venezuela, not a home user.
Interesting
- The inventory is not homogeneous. Alongside the genuine IFX space, AS8053 also announces several ARIN /22s registered to Rutilance Networks — an IPv4 leasing company at a Dover, Delaware registered-agent address that markets addresses for bulk email and scraping — plus a Cogent-registered /23. These carry no reverse DNS at all and are not IFX's own space. Addresses in those ranges should not be geolocated to IFX or to Venezuela; the operator behind them is whoever leased them.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| NAP VE Caracas | Caracas, Venezuela | 45.68.88.18 |
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 10 prefixes · 27.90K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| VE | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 11 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8053- Registry name
- 8053
- Registrant
- IFX Networks Venezuela C.A.
- Abuse contact
- jcrespo@ifxnw.com.ve
- Registered
- 1997-03-25
- Last changed
- 1997-03-25
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 95% valid · 18 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS8053
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 19 of 19 announcements
- Route objects
- 14 naming AS8053
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: 436 networks and 1,771 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