Autonomous system
AS8319 NETHINKS-AS NETHINKS GmbH
Unclassified RIPE NSP
Summary
NETHINKS
isp hosting legacy
NETHINKS-AS is NETHINKS GmbH, an owner-operated ICT provider in Fulda, Hesse. It began in 1996 as regio.NET, a regional ISP, and now runs its own backbone and datacentres in Fulda, Nuremberg and Frankfurt alongside a network and IT services business.
What it's used for
- Business internet access and managed connectivity. Reverse DNS shows both an access side (
HOSTID.dsl.nethinks.com,ppp-NN-SITE.nethinks.com) and a large set of customer records on entirely unrelated German domains: a supermarket group's Citrix gateway, a publisher's firewall, corporate mail servers. - Datacentre and colocation services out of its own facilities, sold together with network design and monitoring work.
- The AS also carries several large legacy blocks including
212.218.0.0/16, whose RIPE netname is stillDE-REGIO-980409, a direct fossil of the company's original regio.NET identity.
Notable
- Business network, not an eyeball ISP. The DSL and PPP naming is real, but the addresses behind it resolve to companies, not households. The bulk of the identifiable space is static assignments to enterprises in the Fulda region.
- The address count is inflated by a
149.218.0.0/17registered to an unrelated German networking-equipment maker and merely maintained by NETHINKS. That is customer space, not the provider's own, so do not attribute it to NETHINKS.
Interesting
- The company deliberately stopped being "just an ISP" around 2004, when it renamed from regio.NET and moved into network engineering with its own datacentre. The AS still reflects both halves of that history in its addressing.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.193.94 |
Transit providers
15 upstream, 3 downstream and 26 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 17 prefixes · 110K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 19 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8319- Registry name
- NETHINKS-AS
- Registrant
- NETHINKS-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@nethinks.com
- Registered
- 2002-09-19
- Last changed
- 2023-04-08
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- NETHINKS
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-IXNETHINKS- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- http://www.nethinks.com
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 57% valid · 8 valid, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS8319
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 14 of 14 announcements
- Route objects
- 22 naming AS8319
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: 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