Autonomous system
AS8596 HOTZE-AS hotze.com GmbH
Hosting RIPE
Summary
hotze.com GmbH
isp hosting enterprise legacy
HOTZE-AS is hotze.com GmbH — an Austrian company based in Innsbruck, Tyrol, despite the German-looking GmbH suffix that leads several databases to file it under Germany. It is a regional IT and connectivity provider for businesses.
What it's used for
- Business internet access, hosting, domains, cloud workplaces, hosted email and VoIP telephony, run out of the company's own Innsbruck data centre.
- About 9,200 IPv4 addresses across two prefixes: the legacy
82.150.192.0/19and a later185.74.0.0/22.
Notable
- The sampled address at the head of the block resolves to
adns1.hotze.com— a name server, first-party infrastructure. There is no subscriber-pool naming in the sample. - Thirty-four observed BGP neighbours for a network of this size: hotze.com peers openly at the Vienna Internet Exchange and the local Tirol-IX, which is how a small regional provider keeps Austrian traffic local.
- PeeringDB self-describes the network as "Cable/DSL/ISP" with regional scope, but the company's own product line is squarely business IT and hosting — worth noting because the two descriptions pull in different directions.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vienna Internet Exchange | Vienna, Austria | 193.203.0.130 |
| Tirol-IX | Innsbruck, Austria | 185.1.31.6 |
Transit providers
5 upstream, 1 downstream and 9 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 2 prefixes · 9.22K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AT | Austria | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8596- Registry name
- HOTZE-AS
- Registrant
- HOTZE-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@hotze.com
- Registered
- 2003-08-27
- Last changed
- 2026-09-25
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS8596
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS8596
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: 431 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