Autonomous system
AS8972 GD-EMEA-DC-SXB1
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Host Europe (GoDaddy EMEA)
hosting cloud legacy
GD-EMEA-DC-SXB1 is held by Host Europe GmbH of Cologne, the German web-hosting business now owned by GoDaddy — the handle is GoDaddy's own naming for its EMEA datacentre estate, and the AS is maintained under GODADDY-MNT.
What it's used for
- Shared hosting, virtual private servers and dedicated servers. The rDNS is uniform and first-party across the estate:
ds62-138-154-1.dedicated.hosteurope.defor dedicated machines, andlvps…,wvps…,pvcl…prefixed names for the various virtual-server product lines, all underdedicated.hosteurope.de. - Roughly 103,000 IPv4 addresses across ~120 prefixes, plus several IPv6 blocks.
Notable
- The inventory is highly fragmented — over a hundred prefixes, many of them /24s — which is the accumulation pattern of a hosting company that has bought up address space and absorbed other providers over two decades, not a broker shape: the blocks are registered to Host Europe / GoDaddy and carry first-party rDNS.
- Only one observed BGP neighbour. This AS sits behind GoDaddy's own upstream rather than peering on its own account.
- Being a mass-market hosting network, the addresses carry customer-run websites and servers. They are datacentre space and must not be read as residential.
Interesting
- Host Europe was one of Germany's original web hosts and later the parent of the Host Europe Group, which owned brands including 123-reg and Heart Internet before GoDaddy acquired the group in 2017. The AS number and much of the address space predate all of that.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS20773 | Host Europe GmbH | 7,086 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 98 prefixes · 103K addresses IPv6 19 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 117 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8972- Registry name
- GD-EMEA-DC-SXB1
- Registrant
- GODADDY-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@hosteurope.de
- Registered
- 2002-05-21
- Last changed
- 2019-06-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 99.2% valid · 119 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 236 authorising AS8972
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 120 of 120 announcements
- Route objects
- 257 naming AS8972
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: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-01. 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