Autonomous system
AS8926 MOLDTELECOM-AS Moldtelecom Autonomous System
Residential APNIC
Summary
Moldtelecom
isp residential transit legacy
MOLDTELECOM-AS is the network of Moldtelecom SA, Moldova's state-owned incumbent telecom operator and by a wide margin the country's largest network. It is the single AS through which most of Moldova's internet reaches the world.
What it's used for
- Retail fixed broadband and IPTV (FTTH and DSL), business connectivity, and domestic IP transit for other Moldovan networks.
- Roughly 483,000 IPv4 addresses across ~111 prefixes plus seven IPv6 blocks — an enormous inventory for a country of about 2.5 million people, which is what being the incumbent looks like.
Notable
- rDNS is uniform across essentially the whole inventory:
host-static-IP-DASHED.moldtelecom.md, with occasional named business hosts breaking the pattern. The naming is generated per address rather than per service, so it does not separate consumer from business space — but the sheer volume of it, and the absence of any other large Moldovan eyeball AS, puts the country's household broadband here. - It is also a transit network: around fifty downstream ASNs sit behind it, including most of the smaller Moldovan providers. Eyeball and transit in one AS is typical of a small-country incumbent.
Interesting
- Moldtelecom also runs the Unité mobile brand, so mobile as well as fixed subscriber traffic can appear on this space. Treat the addresses as Moldovan end-users generally, rather than assuming any one access technology.
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 6 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.194.94 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.119.232 |
| Giganet Internet Exchange | Kyiv, Ukraine | 185.1.62.204 |
| NetIX | Sofia, Bulgaria | 185.1.227.60 |
| InterLAN-IX | Bucharest, Romania | 86.104.125.111 |
| Moldova Internet Exchange | Chisinau, Moldova | 193.17.78.32 |
Transit providers
36 upstream, 46 downstream and 110 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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 110 prefixes · 467K addresses IPv6 20 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| MD | Moldova, Republic of | 130 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS8926- Registry name
- MOLDTELECOM-AS
- Registrant
- MOLDTELECOM-MNT
- Abuse contact
- cert.mtc@moldtelecom.md
- Registered
- 2002-08-06
- Last changed
- 2026-01-28
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 112 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 86 authorising AS8926
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 112 of 112 announcements
- Route objects
- 182 naming AS8926
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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