Autonomous system
AS8838 STRIPE-21-GROUP-LIMITED Stripe21 - Business Telecoms Solutions - www.stripe21.com
Residential RIPE
Summary
Compuweb Communications Services (Stripe21)
enterprise isp legacy
STRIPE-21-GROUP-LIMITED is held by Compuweb Communications Services Limited — better known as CWCS, a Nottingham managed-hosting provider — which acquired Stripe 21, a Dorking-based business telecoms company, to bolt connectivity and voice onto its hosting portfolio. The AS carries the Stripe21 name and the Stripe21 network.
What it's used for
Business connectivity and voice: leased lines, FTTP and SoGEA business broadband, SIP trunks and hosted VoIP, sold to UK companies, plus CWCS's managed hosting behind it. The one PTR returned in the sample is telling on its own — lo0.asr9k01.ld8.stripe21.net is the loopback interface of a Cisco ASR 9000 edge router sited in LD8, Telehouse North in London Docklands. That is a carrier-grade router in the country's densest interconnect building, which is where a small B2B provider puts its edge if it means to peer seriously.
Notable
- Two prefixes —
212.42.0.0/19and194.50.108.0/24, about 8,400 addresses — plus IPv6. Small, contiguous, self-registered. - 32 observed BGP neighbours against only 8,400 addresses. The neighbour-to-address ratio is the real signal here: this network peers far more widely than its size would suggest, consistent with a Docklands-based provider that peers at LINX rather than buying a single transit pipe.
- No subscriber-pool naming in the sample. Everything points at business customers and hosted services rather than an eyeball network.
Interesting
The ld8 in the router name is not a hostname convention the company invented — it is the industry shorthand for Telehouse North, and it shows up in the reverse DNS of dozens of unrelated UK networks for the same reason.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| London Network Access Point | London, United Kingdom | 5.57.80.122 |
Transit providers
8 upstream, 0 downstream and 14 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 2026-10-20, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 8.19K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8838- Registry name
- STRIPE-21-GROUP-LIMITED
- Registrant
- COMPCOMM-MNT
- Abuse contact
- helpdesk@stripe21.com
- Registered
- 2002-09-24
- Last changed
- 2025-03-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS8838
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS8838
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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 2026-10-21. 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