AS8319 — NETHINKS-AS NETHINKS GmbH

AS8319 announces 10 IPv4 prefixes covering 109,824 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

NETHINKS-AS is NETHINKS GmbH, an owner-operated ICT provider in Fulda, Hesse. It began in 1996 as regio.NET, a regional ISP, and now runs its own backbone and datacentres in Fulda, Nuremberg and Frankfurt alongside a network and IT services business.

What it's used for

• Business internet access and managed connectivity. Reverse DNS shows both an access side (HOSTID.dsl.nethinks.com, ppp-NN-SITE.nethinks.com) and a large set of customer records on entirely unrelated German domains: a supermarket group's Citrix gateway, a publisher's firewall, corporate mail servers.
• Datacentre and colocation services out of its own facilities, sold together with network design and monitoring work.
• The AS also carries several large legacy blocks including 212.218.0.0/16, whose RIPE netname is still DE-REGIO-980409, a direct fossil of the company's original regio.NET identity.

Notable

• Business network, not an eyeball ISP. The DSL and PPP naming is real, but the addresses behind it resolve to companies, not households. The bulk of the identifiable space is static assignments to enterprises in the Fulda region.
• The address count is inflated by a 149.218.0.0/17 registered to an unrelated German networking-equipment maker and merely maintained by NETHINKS. That is customer space, not the provider's own, so do not attribute it to NETHINKS.

Interesting

• The company deliberately stopped being "just an ISP" around 2004, when it renamed from regio.NET and moved into network engineering with its own datacentre. The AS still reflects both halves of that history in its addressing.

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

Announced prefixes

• 149.218.0.0/17
• 185.206.152.0/22
• 185.209.132.0/22
• 193.28.150.0/24
• 194.0.165.0/24
• 194.153.151.0/24
• 195.144.3.0/24
• 195.158.32.0/19
• 195.250.48.0/24
• 212.218.0.0/16
• 2001:4cd8::/31
• 2a0b:3940::/29

Upstream networks

• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS34309 Link11 GmbH
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS21385 Trusted Network GmbH
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS212024 Marc Schmitt
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS29632 Netassist International EOOD
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL

Downstream networks

• AS44018 active logistics GmbH
• AS47432 Klinikum Fulda gAG
• AS30787 Jumo GmbH & Co. KG

Adjacent networks

• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS34309 Link11 GmbH
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS44018 active logistics GmbH
• AS47432 Klinikum Fulda gAG
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS30787 Jumo GmbH & Co. KG
• AS21385 Trusted Network GmbH
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS6695 DE-CIX Management GmbH
• AS212024 Marc Schmitt
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS29632 Netassist International EOOD
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany