Autonomous system
AS8481 TRANSNET
Unclassified RIPE Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
SpaceNet AG
hosting enterprise legacy
TRANSNET is a secondary AS held by SpaceNet AG, a Munich IT services provider that runs its own high-security data centres and supplies managed IT, cloud and security services to German businesses. SpaceNet's main network is AS5539.
What it's used for
- Announcing a single
/22alongside SpaceNet's primary network; the addresses serve the company's hosting and managed-service customers. - Historically, the RIPE object records that this AS was loaned to the Debian Anycast Project, which used it to announce anycast service prefixes.
Notable
- A small, single-prefix AS (about 1,000 addresses) with one BGP neighbour, not an independent operator. Card the parent, SpaceNet, rather than treating this as a network in its own right.
- Almost no reverse DNS is published in the block, so the prefix says little about what runs on it.
Interesting
- The
TRANSNETname has no connection to any company called Transnet. It is a registry handle SpaceNet has carried for decades, and the RIPE object'screated:field is the1970-01-01placeholder used for records that predate the database — a genuine marker of age, unlike most RIPE creation dates.
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 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS5539 | SpaceNet GmbH | 61 |
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 1 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8481- Registry name
- TRANSNET
- Registrant
- SpaceNet AG
- Abuse contact
- abuse@space.net
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2022-11-01
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Transnet Internet Services GmbH
- Also known as
- TRANSNET
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Outbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- Website
- http://www.trans.net
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
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS8481
- ASPA
- 2 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS8481
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: 445 networks and 1,817 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