Autonomous system
AS8888 XTOM xTom Pty Ltd
Hosting RIPE
Summary
xTom Pty Ltd
hosting legacy
AS8888 is the APAC network of xTom, a hosting group whose Australian entity xTom Pty Ltd holds the AS. xTom sells VPS (the V.PS brand), unmetered dedicated servers, colocation, IP transit, CDN and anycast/BGP hosting, out of data centres in Tokyo, Osaka, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, San Jose and several European cities.
What it's used for
Server hosting and BGP/anycast customer space. The AS announces about 16,600 IPv4 addresses in 65 prefixes — almost all /24s — alongside 43 IPv6 prefixes. The sampled reverse DNS is uniformly first-party server naming:
IP-ADDR.static.xtom.comacross the company's own blocks.sNNNNN.vps.hostingandIP-ADDR.static.vps.hostingon VPS space.
There is no subscriber naming anywhere. Every host in evidence is a server.
Notable
- 274 observed BGP neighbours against only ~16,600 addresses. That ratio would normally point at a transit carrier, and xTom does sell IP transit — but the peering count is mostly explained by its stated presence at 2,000+ internet exchanges. It is an extremely well-peered host, not a wholesale backbone.
- Many small scattered
/24s from post-exhaustion ranges (45.x,96.9.x,185.x,193.x,103.x) look at first glance like the address-broker silhouette. They are not: the blocks carry xTom's own reverse DNS and resolve to xTom-branded infrastructure. The discriminator is first-party rDNS, and it is present throughout. - xTom runs several ASNs; this one is its Asia-Pacific network, which is why the
locationhere is best read as Global rather than Australia.
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 6 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.192.139 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.228.49 |
| Singapore Internet Exchange | Singapore, Singapore | 103.16.103.21 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 45.127.173.20 |
| Local Internet Exchange Düsseldorf | Düsseldorf, Germany | 185.1.155.55 |
| Local Internet Exchange Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 185.1.167.118 |
Transit providers
28 upstream, 15 downstream and 66 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 53 prefixes · 18.69K addresses IPv6 66 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 119 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8888- Registry name
- XTOM
- Registrant
- xTom Pty Ltd
- Abuse contact
- abuse@xtom.com
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2024-08-17
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 117 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 482 authorising AS8888
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 117 of 117 announcements
- Route objects
- 1,592 naming AS8888
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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