Autonomous system
AS8538 ILINK-AS Ventspils, Latvia
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
iLink SIA
isp legacy
iLink-AS belongs to iLink SIA, a local internet and IT services company in Ventspils, the Baltic port city in western Latvia. It has been a registered electronic-communications merchant with Latvia's Public Utilities Commission since 2003, and sells connectivity to both households and businesses in Ventspils city and district alongside hardware supply and repair work.
What it's used for
Retail internet access in one Latvian region. The network is tiny: about 1,280 IPv4 addresses across two prefixes (195.8.115.0/24 and 192.162.104.0/22) with two observed BGP neighbours, which makes it a dual-homed leaf network buying transit rather than selling it.
Only one address sampled inside the announced space returned a PTR, as.ilink.lv — the operator's own border-router naming. No PTRs came back on the other addresses sampled, which says nothing about whether the rest of the space is delegated; it simply was not observed here.
Notable
- The two prefixes come from different legacy allocations, which is normal for a small ISP that has picked up address space in stages.
- iLink is a good example of the long tail of low-numbered ASNs — an early registration that still belongs to a small, regionally-scoped operator rather than to a national carrier.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS12578 | SIA Tet | 116 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| LV | Latvia | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8538- Registry name
- iLink-AS
- Registrant
- MNT-ILINK-LV
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ilink.lv
- Registered
- 2003-12-23
- Last changed
- 2026-04-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS8538
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS8538
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: 442 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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