Autonomous system
AS8244 SPARKLENET Multi-National-Customers AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Telecom Italia Sparkle (Multi-National Customers)
enterprise legacy
SPARKLENET Multi-National-Customers AS belongs to Telecom Italia Sparkle, the international wholesale and enterprise arm of TIM. It is the AS used for Sparkle's multinational-corporate internet-access product rather than for the Sparkle backbone itself, which is AS6762.
What it's used for
- Roughly 4,000 addresses in four prefixes, all drawn from Sparkle allocations whose registry descriptions read "SPARKLENET - MNC INTERNET SERVICE" — MNC being multinational corporations.
- Reverse DNS across the space is Sparkle's own generic pattern,
hostNNN-poolNNNNNNNNN.tisparkle.it, with no per-customer naming. - A single upstream (Sparkle's own backbone) and no downstream networks: this is customer-access space, not transit.
Notable
- The addresses sit at enterprise sites belonging to many unrelated companies, so a hit here means "a multinational's office behind Sparkle", not a Sparkle facility.
- Do not geolocate to Italy on the strength of the holder. Sparkle registers separate MNC blocks tagged (EU) and (US) inside the same allocation, and the customers are by definition spread across countries.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 3 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS6762 | TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A. | 295 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 4.61K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IT | Italy | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8244- Registry name
- SPARKLENET
- Registrant
- AS8244-MNT
- Abuse contact
- tech@seabone.net
- Registered
- 2001-10-26
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS8244
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS8244
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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 1,773 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