Autonomous system
AS8515 DATAFORCE-AS Internet Service Provider
Hosting RIPE
Summary
DataForce IP
hosting isp legacy
DATAFORCE-AS is the network of CJSC "DataForce IP", a Moscow internet service and hosting provider. It announces a single 195.42.160.0/19 — about 8,000 addresses — from an address at 3rd Samotechny Lane in central Moscow.
What it's used for
- Web and mail hosting, virtual servers and colocation for Russian business customers, alongside leased-line internet access.
- Provider infrastructure: name servers, caches and gateways sit in the low end of the block, customer assignments fill the rest.
Notable
- rDNS is entirely first-party and splits cleanly in two. Most of the /19 uses a generic customer template —
hNNN.nNNN.cust.dataforce.net— and avirtual-…zone marks shared-hosting addresses. Where a name has been customised it is a hosted website (Russian consumer and trade sites), not a subscriber. - There is no
dsl-,pppoe-,dyn-or other eyeball naming anywhere, so this is not a residential network despite the provider also selling access circuits. The address space is dominated by hosted content and customer servers. - One observed BGP neighbour: a single-homed provider network, not transit.
Interesting
- DataForce has been in Moscow hosting since the dial-up era, which explains the four-digit AS number and the contiguous /19 obtained straight from RIPE rather than through an upstream.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS213220 | Delta Ltd | 62 |
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 1 prefixes · 8.19K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8515- Registry name
- DATAFORCE-AS
- Registrant
- DATAFORCE-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@dataforce.net
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2026-09-08
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS8515
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS8515
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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