Autonomous system
AS8741 RATIOKONTAKT
Hosting RIPE
Summary
ratiokontakt
hosting cloud legacy
ratiokontakt GmbH (ratiokontakt) — a managed-hosting and cloud provider from Bamberg, Germany, providing internet services since 1996 and running its own data centre in Nuremberg. Around 74,000 IPv4 addresses, dominated by a legacy 212.223.0.0/16, plus two IPv6 /32s.
What it's used for
- Managed servers, shared and dedicated hosting, email, domains and private/hybrid cloud for German business customers. Tens of thousands of hosted domains sit behind the space.
- The rDNS shows the operator's own core (
ecore.net— a ratiokontakt brand, including its Frankfurt core routers and customer account portal) alongside hosted customer sites and remote-access gateways for managed-IT clients.
Notable
- A
/16is a large block for a company this size, and it is a legacy allocation: the netname records a 1998 registration, from the era when a German ISP could still ask for a Class B. Most of it carries no reverse DNS. - Peering is at DE-CIX and the Nuremberg exchange with an open policy, but the AS has only a handful of transit neighbours — a content/hosting network's shape, not a carrier's.
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 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 2001:7f8::2225:0:1 |
| DE-CIX Dusseldorf | Düsseldorf, Germany | 2001:7f8:9e::2225:0:1 |
| DE-CIX Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany | 185.1.210.148 |
| Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange | Berlin, Germany | 193.178.185.130 |
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 2 prefixes · 73.73K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8741- Registry name
- ratiokontakt
- Registrant
- MNT-RAK2014
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ratiokontakt.de
- Registered
- 2002-09-09
- Last changed
- 2016-04-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS8741
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS8741
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