Autonomous system
AS8431 AS8431 Sofia, Bulgaria
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
TEA Ltd
hosting isp legacy
AS8431 belongs to TEA Ltd of Sofia, one of Bulgaria's long-standing internet companies. It sells business internet access in Sofia and Plovdiv alongside web hosting, VPS, colocation and IT support. Many datasets show its name as "Sofia, Bulgaria" — that is the registry's location field, not a company name.
What it's used for
- Corporate connectivity and hosted services. The reverse DNS across
195.230.0.0/19is a roll-call of customer names: individual hosts and gateways undertea.bgare named after the businesses behind them, with the provider's own routers and address pools mixed in. - Just under 5,000 IPv4 addresses in nine prefixes, all from a single legacy allocation, with no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Business and hosting space, not eyeball space. There are no dynamic subscriber pools here. An address in this range is most likely a customer's server or a leased-line site.
- The AS peers with a large number of Bulgarian networks relative to its size, which is what a small local provider looks like when it sits on the national exchange: many peers, few upstreams, little address space.
Interesting
- The allocation's netname encodes its own date,
960917— September 1996 — which is a fair marker of when this network first came online, back when a Bulgarian ISP named each customer's gateway by hand.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NetIX | Sofia, Bulgaria | 185.1.227.6 |
| Bulgarian Internet eXchange | Sofia, Bulgaria | 193.169.198.212 |
Transit providers
16 upstream, 0 downstream and 16 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 6 prefixes · 4.86K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BG | Bulgaria | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8431- Registry name
- AS8431
- Registrant
- AS8431-MNT
- Abuse contact
- registry@tea.bg
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2023-02-28
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 9 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS8431
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 9 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 16 naming AS8431
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