Autonomous system
AS8968 BT-ITALIA
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
BT Italia
isp business enterprise legacy
BT-Italia is the Italian network of BT Italia S.p.A., BT Group's Italian operating company. It is one of the larger ASNs in its range: roughly 824,000 IPv4 addresses across ~30 prefixes, with dozens of BGP neighbours.
What it's used for
- Corporate and public-sector connectivity, not consumer broadband. Every sampled address across
78.4.0.0/16,85.20.0.0/16,89.118.0.0/16,89.119.0.0/16,213.213.0.0/17,213.255.0.0/17and the rest resolves to a static name —78-4-0-1-static.albacom.net,89-118-50-10-static.btitalia.it,h213-213-100-10.pd1.albacom.net. There are nodsl-,pppoe-,dyn-or pool markers anywhere. - Managed WAN, IP-VPN, voice and ICT services to Italian enterprises and government bodies.
Notable
- The rDNS still carries
albacom.net, the name of Albacom, the Italian alternative carrier BT took full control of in 2005 and rebranded. The two domains sit side by side in the same blocks — a legacy operator's addressing rarely gets renamed. - Size is a trap here. Nearly a million addresses on a national carrier's AS looks like an eyeball network; the inventory says the opposite. This AS is
business, and it should not be treated as Italian consumer space.
Interesting
- BT sold its Italian domestic operations to Retelit in 2025. RIPE still records the AS to BT Italia S.p.A., so the registry name and the operating company behind the addresses may diverge for some time.
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 4 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Milan Internet Exchange | Milan, Italy | 217.29.66.40 |
| NetIX | Sofia, Bulgaria | 2001:67c:29f0::5:7463:177 |
| Roma Internet Exchange Point | Rome, Italy | 193.201.28.9 |
| Torino Piemonte Exchange Point | Torino, Italy | 194.116.96.27 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 14 downstream and 31 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 31 prefixes · 822K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IT | Italy | 32 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8968- Registry name
- BT-Italia
- Registrant
- lir-it-retelit-x-1-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse.italyg@retelit.it
- Registered
- 2002-09-10
- Last changed
- 2026-07-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 5% valid · 2 valid, 36 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS8968
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 38 of 38 announcements
- Route objects
- 50 naming AS8968
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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