Autonomous system
AS8820 TAL-DE Tal.de GmbH
Hosting RIPE Content
Summary
TAL.DE GmbH
hosting enterprise legacy
TAL-DE is TAL.DE GmbH of Wuppertal, a German ISP and data-centre operator running since 1996 (originally as KDT, renamed tal.de in 2002). It operates two on-site data centres in Wuppertal with a private backbone linking Wuppertal, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt, and was acquired by the Riedel group.
What it's used for
Colocation, cloud, web hosting and business connectivity for customers in the Bergisches Land region. The reverse DNS reflects exactly that split: one sampled address is kvm.tal.de — the operator's own virtualisation infrastructure — while another is mail.schick-bau.de, the mail server of a customer construction firm. Provider-owned infra plus named business customers on provider-announced space is the signature of a regional hosting and business-ISP mix, not an eyeball network.
Notable
- A broad and untidy inventory:
195.8.224.0/19,212.17.240.0/20,212.60.128.0/20,81.92.0.0/20,213.240.176.0/20and a scatter of stray /24s. This looks superficially like an address-leasing shape, but the blocks are old contiguous German allocations with first-party rDNS on the operator's own hosts — consistent with an ISP that has absorbed smaller regional providers over three decades. - No consumer subscriber-pool naming (
dsl-,pppoe-,dyn-) appears in the sampled reverse DNS.
Interesting
The company name is a pun that only works in German: Wuppertal sits in a valley (Tal), and .de is the country's TLD — so the ISP for the valley is literally tal.de.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Megaport Dusseldorf IX | Düsseldorf, Germany | 194.146.118.26 |
Transit providers
8 upstream, 4 downstream and 19 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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 51 prefixes · 42.50K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 54 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8820- Registry name
- TAL-DE
- Registrant
- tal.de GmbH
- Abuse contact
- abuse+ripe@tal.de
- Registered
- 2002-07-30
- Last changed
- 2025-07-21
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- TAL.DE
- Network type
- Content
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-TAL- Website
- http://www.tal.de
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 93% valid · 41 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 20 authorising AS8820
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 43 of 44 announcements
- Route objects
- 70 naming AS8820
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: 442 networks and 1,773 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