AS212660 — WHG-DXB1

Network type: hosting

AS212660 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The Dubai point of presence of WHG Hosting Services Ltd, trading as hosting.com, and the smallest ASN in the family by a wide margin.

What it's used for

Shared web hosting and VPS. The ASN announces just 2 IPv4 prefixes, 198.38.94.0/24 and 198.38.95.0/24, totalling 512 addresses. No IPv6 is announced.

Notable

• Netnames are WHG-DXB1-1 and WHG-DXB1-2, and nothing else. The dxb1 site code matches the AS name.
• Infrastructure answers as h102.dxb1.whgi.net on the operator's own domain.
• Five upstreams: AS286, AS3257, AS6939, AS17557 and AS35280. No customer ASNs.
• Both prefixes sit inside 198.38.80.0/20, a range the group carves up across several of its sites rather than dedicating to one.

Interesting

• One of the few hosts that answers a PTR returns vps.windows-dom.local. The .local suffix is reserved for local networks and cannot resolve publicly, so an internal Windows domain name has escaped into public reverse DNS.
• With only 512 addresses, very few hosts answer at all, which makes the reverse DNS evidence here thinner than anywhere else in the family. The classification rests mainly on the registry chain and the shared whgi.net infrastructure naming.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 198.38.94.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.

Internet exchanges

• UAE-IX — Dubai, United Arab Emirates