Autonomous system
AS8789 NOV-AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Telefónica Tech Northern Ireland (formerly Novosco)
hosting enterprise legacy
NOV-AS is now registered to Telefónica Tech Northern Ireland Limited. The handle is the clue to what it actually is: NOV is Novosco, the Belfast managed-cloud and IT-services firm founded in 2007.
What it's used for
Managed hosting and private cloud for enterprise and public-sector customers — Novosco was best known for running infrastructure for NHS trusts, councils and financial services across Northern Ireland, Ireland and the north of England. The AS announces a single 90.155.112.0/20 (about 4,100 addresses) with one observed BGP neighbour: a service provider's own hosting estate behind one upstream, not a carrier network. No PTRs were returned on the addresses sampled, so the internal naming could not be examined.
Notable
The ownership chain is unusually busy for a network this small:
- Novosco was acquired by the German IT group CANCOM in 2019 for around £70m.
- CANCOM sold its UK & Ireland arm to Telefónica Tech in 2021 for roughly €398m, moving the Belfast business to the Spanish group.
The registry object has followed the money; the AS handle has not, which is why the network still carries the name of a company that no longer exists.
Interesting
The prefix first appears in the routing table in 2011, well after the AS number's low value would suggest. Low AS numbers say when a number was issued, not when the current holder started using it — a caution that applies to this whole range.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS60793 | TELEFONICA TECH NORTHERN IRELAND LIMITED | 59 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-21, 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 · 4.10K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8789- Registry name
- NOV-AS
- Registrant
- MNT-CSN8789
- Abuse contact
- cloudstreamadmin@novosco.com
- Registered
- 2010-07-21
- Last changed
- 2022-03-21
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS8789
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS8789
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-22. 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