AS8884 CRIF-AS BOLOGNA - ITALY

CRIF-AS belongs to CRIF S.p.A., a Bologna-headquartered company that runs credit bureaus and sells business information, credit-risk analytics and decisioning software to banks and lenders. It operates internationally but the AS is registered and run from Italy.

What it's used for

CRIF's own service platform. The AS announces roughly 8,192 addresses in five prefixes, all carved out of a single contiguous 212.7.64.0/19 allocation, with only three observed neighbours. That is an end-site network: one legacy block, subdivided for the operator's own use, homed to a few carriers.

The reverse DNS is first-party and revealing: draas.vpns.crif.com names a DRaaS (disaster-recovery-as-a-service) endpoint reached over the company's VPN infrastructure. This is enterprise service delivery, not hosting sold to the public.

Notable

• A tidy, contiguous, single-RIR inventory. Everything comes from one /19; nothing is assembled from third-party space. This is what a legitimate long-standing enterprise allocation looks like, and a useful contrast with the scattered multi-RIR blocks that signal address brokering.
• CRIF handles credit data for lenders across Europe, so the space carries data feeds and customer-facing portals for financial institutions rather than general web hosting.
• Classified business: an enterprise running its own network, even though the product it delivers over that network is a data service.