Autonomous system
AS8388 DOLNET
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Alter Ego Media (ex-Lambrakis Press / DOL)
enterprise legacy
DOLNET was the network of DOL, the Lambrakis Press Organisation, once the dominant Greek publishing group behind the newspapers Ta Nea and To Vima and the in.gr portal. The AS and its address space are now registered to Alter Ego Media S.A., the Athens media company that acquired the group's titles.
What it's used for
- A media company's own network: editorial and publishing systems, corporate IT, and the group's web properties and broadcast operations in Athens.
- Announcing about a dozen prefixes, roughly 4,000 addresses, out of legacy provider-independent blocks in
193.218.84.0and194.63.240.0space, both still netnamedDOLNET.
Notable
- An enterprise network, not a service provider. Despite the size of the media brands behind it, the routed footprint is small and there are no subscriber pools. No reverse DNS is published across the space.
- The address blocks are provider-independent legacy assignments with the RIPE placeholder creation date used for objects that predate the database, which matches an organisation that was online early because it ran one of Greece's first big web portals.
Interesting
- The handle outlived its holder, which is the normal pattern. DOL collapsed financially and its assets were auctioned; the titles, and with them the AS and the address space, passed to Alter Ego Media. Routing data still says
DOLNET, a company that no longer exists.
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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
3 upstream, 0 downstream and 3 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 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 4.35K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GR | Greece | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8388- Registry name
- DOLNET
- Registrant
- AS8388-MNT
- Abuse contact
- noc@alteregomedia.org
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2022-03-21
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 11 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS8388
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 11 of 11 announcements
- Route objects
- 12 naming AS8388
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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