Autonomous system
AS8660 MATRIX-AS
Hosting APNIC
Summary
Italiaonline (Matrix)
hosting enterprise legacy
MATRIX-AS is held by Italiaonline S.p.A., the Milan-based internet company behind Italy's two big consumer web portals, Virgilio and Libero. The handle preserves Matrix S.p.A., the company that built and ran Virgilio before the merger that created Italiaonline.
What it's used for
- Serving Italiaonline's own web properties: the Virgilio and Libero portals, their webmail platforms, search, news and advertising systems. Public portal hostnames resolve directly into this AS's
212.48.0.0/19and213.209.0.0/18blocks. - About 28,700 IPv4 addresses across 15 prefixes.
Notable
- 343 observed BGP neighbours — enormous for a network of this size, and the single most telling number here. Italiaonline peers very widely so that Italian eyeball networks reach its portals and mailboxes directly. That is content-side peering, not transit sales.
- No PTRs were returned on the addresses sampled. That is not proof the zones are undelegated; it means the forward DNS (portal hostnames landing in this space) is what identifies the content, rather than reverse DNS.
- Libero began life as a consumer dial-up ISP, and the name still reads that way, but this AS carries the content and mail platform rather than subscriber access. It should not be geolocated as Italian residential space.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Milan Internet Exchange | Milan, Italy | 217.29.66.233 |
Transit providers
8 upstream, 0 downstream and 8 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 14 prefixes · 28.67K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IT | Italy | 14 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS8660- Registry name
- MATRIX-AS
- Registrant
- IOL-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@italiaonline.it
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2019-03-14
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 15 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS8660
- ASPA
- 3 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 15 of 15 announcements
- Route objects
- 33 naming AS8660
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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