Autonomous system
AS8881 VERSATEL
Residential RIPE
Summary
1&1 Versatel
isp residential eyeball dsl fiber
1&1 Versatel (VERSATEL) is a German telecom whose AS8881 carries retail internet access for consumers and businesses across Germany, part of the 1&1 group.
What it's used for
- DSL and fibre home internet for German households, alongside the group's fixed-line broadband products.
Notable
- A large "eyeball" network: addresses here are end-user home connections, not servers, and it ranks among the top consumer-ISP origins in Germany.
- Versatel is the network arm; 1&1 markets the retail broadband and also runs a mobile business, so subscribers may be fixed, mobile, or both.
Interesting
- The Versatel fibre backbone was originally built as an alternative-carrier network to Deutsche Telekom before the 1&1 acquisition.
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 9 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.197.40 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.209.109 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.117.101 |
| DE-CIX Dusseldorf | Düsseldorf, Germany | 185.1.170.109 |
| Peering.cz | Prague, Czech Republic | 185.0.20.140 |
| DE-CIX Munich | Munich, Germany | 185.1.208.251 |
| DE-CIX Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany | 185.1.210.35 |
| Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange | Berlin, Germany | 193.178.185.15 |
Transit providers
38 upstream, 168 downstream and 319 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 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 498 prefixes · 1.82M addresses IPv6 43 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 541 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8881- Registry name
- VERSATEL
- Registrant
- 1&1 Versatel GmbH
- Abuse contact
- abuse@1und1.net
- Registered
- 2002-05-22
- Last changed
- 2026-09-28
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 83% valid · 554 valid, 112 with no ROA 2 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 522 authorising AS8881
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 97% registered · 650 of 668 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 966 naming AS8881
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: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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