AS8391 — KNIPP-AS Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH

Network type: hosting

AS8391 announces 22 IPv4 prefixes covering 34,560 addresses and 20 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

KNIPP-AS belongs to Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH of Dortmund, a German company best known for building and running domain-registry and registrar systems. The AS carries Knipp's hosting and service platforms.

What it's used for

• Hosting and managed services for Knipp's customers. Reverse DNS is dense with per-customer service names under knipp.de, including virtual-machine and platform hosts, and the naming shows separate customer estates rather than a single flat network.
• Registry and DNS infrastructure. Knipp's business is the software and operations behind top-level-domain registries and registrar systems, so a good deal of what it announces is DNS-adjacent service platform.

Notable

• A hosting and services network, not an access provider. Roughly 50,000 IPv4 addresses, most of it three contiguous /18s in 195.253.0.0 space, plus a set of /24s and an IPv6 /32. Over a hundred BGP peers for a network this size, which suits a company running DNS services that want to be reachable everywhere.
• Part of the space carries reverse DNS under dokom21.de, the Dortmund regional carrier, so some of the addressing is shared with or delegated to that neighbouring network. Don't read every address in the AS as Knipp's own.

Interesting

• The kind of network that is invisible to end users but sits under things they use constantly. Registry back-end operators are a small club, and their networks are small, old, well-peered, and carry far more importance than their address count suggests.

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

Announced prefixes

• 195.138.32.0/22
• 195.138.38.0/24
• 195.138.54.0/24
• 195.138.58.0/24
• 195.138.61.0/24
• 195.138.62.0/24
• 195.253.0.0/21
• 195.253.20.0/24
• 195.253.22.0/23
• 195.253.31.0/24
• 195.253.32.0/20
• 195.253.52.0/22
• 195.253.56.0/21
• 195.253.67.0/24
• 195.253.68.0/22
• 195.253.72.0/21
• 195.253.80.0/22
• 195.253.113.0/24
• 195.253.121.0/24
• 195.253.122.0/23
• 195.253.127.0/24
• 195.253.128.0/18
• 2a01:5b0::/47
• 2a01:5b0:3::/48
• 2a01:5b0:7::/48
• 2a01:5b0:a::/47
• 2a01:5b0:c::/46
• 2a01:5b0:18::/45
• 2a01:5b0:31::/48
• 2a01:5b0:39::/48
• 2a01:5b0:3a::/47
• 2a01:5b0:3e::/47
• 2a01:5b0:40::/42
• 2a01:5b0:80::/41
• 2a01:5b0:100::/40
• 2a01:5b0:200::/39
• 2a01:5b0:400::/38
• 2a01:5b0:800::/37
• 2a01:5b0:1000::/36
• 2a01:5b0:2000::/35
• 2a01:5b0:4000::/34
• 2a01:5b0:8000::/33

Upstream networks

• AS13237 euNetworks GmbH
• AS8881 1&1 Versatel GmbH
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS212024 Marc Schmitt
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS34800 Securebit AG
• AS29632 Netassist International EOOD
• AS31027 GlobalConnect A/S
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS58057 Securebit AG
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL
• AS1836 green.ch AG
• AS56662 Marcin Gondek

Downstream networks

• AS8561 Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH
• AS15763 DOKOM Gesellschaft fuer Telekommunikation mbH
• AS50611 Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH

Adjacent networks

• AS13237 euNetworks GmbH
• AS8881 1&1 Versatel GmbH
• AS15763 DOKOM Gesellschaft fuer Telekommunikation mbH
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS8561 Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH
• AS50611 Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS212024 Marc Schmitt
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS34800 Securebit AG
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS29632 Netassist International EOOD
• AS58057 Securebit AG
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS56662 Marcin Gondek
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL
• AS1836 green.ch AG
• AS31027 GlobalConnect A/S

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany
• DE-CIX Dusseldorf — Düsseldorf, Germany