AS8820 — TAL-DE Tal.de GmbH

Network type: hosting

AS8820 announces 19 IPv4 prefixes covering 42,496 addresses and 3 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

TAL-DE is TAL.DE GmbH of Wuppertal, a German ISP and data-centre operator running since 1996 (originally as KDT, renamed tal.de in 2002). It operates two on-site data centres in Wuppertal with a private backbone linking Wuppertal, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt, and was acquired by the Riedel group.

What it's used for

Colocation, cloud, web hosting and business connectivity for customers in the Bergisches Land region. The reverse DNS reflects exactly that split: one sampled address is kvm.tal.de — the operator's own virtualisation infrastructure — while another is mail.schick-bau.de, the mail server of a customer construction firm. Provider-owned infra plus named business customers on provider-announced space is the signature of a regional hosting and business-ISP mix, not an eyeball network.

Notable

• A broad and untidy inventory: 195.8.224.0/19, 212.17.240.0/20, 212.60.128.0/20, 81.92.0.0/20, 213.240.176.0/20 and a scatter of stray /24s. This looks superficially like an address-leasing shape, but the blocks are old contiguous German allocations with first-party rDNS on the operator's own hosts — consistent with an ISP that has absorbed smaller regional providers over three decades.
• No consumer subscriber-pool naming (dsl-, pppoe-, dyn-) appears in the sampled reverse DNS.

Interesting

The company name is a pun that only works in German: Wuppertal sits in a valley (Tal), and .de is the country's TLD — so the ISP for the valley is literally tal.de.

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

Announced prefixes

• 46.236.219.0/24
• 78.41.50.0/23
• 81.92.0.0/20
• 82.139.196.0/22
• 82.139.200.0/22
• 82.139.222.0/23
• 82.139.252.0/22
• 92.119.104.0/22
• 188.246.17.0/24
• 188.246.23.0/24
• 195.8.224.0/19
• 212.17.240.0/20
• 212.60.128.0/20
• 213.240.128.0/20
• 213.240.144.0/22
• 213.240.149.0/24
• 213.240.150.0/23
• 213.240.152.0/21
• 213.240.160.0/19
• 2001:67c:1758::/48
• 2a01:170::/29
• 2a09:b0c0::/32

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS5405 Inter.link GmbH
• AS3320 Deutsche Telekom AG
• AS3223 Voxility LLP
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS41692 OpenCarrier eG
• AS24482 SG.GS

Downstream networks

• AS15987 Portunity GmbH
• AS60123 Stadtverwaltung Remscheid
• AS60128 ICIG Business Services GmbH
• AS43910 Intra2net AG

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS15987 Portunity GmbH
• AS5405 Inter.link GmbH
• AS3320 Deutsche Telekom AG
• AS3223 Voxility LLP
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS60123 Stadtverwaltung Remscheid
• AS41692 OpenCarrier eG
• AS60128 ICIG Business Services GmbH
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS43910 Intra2net AG

Internet exchanges

• Megaport Dusseldorf IX — Düsseldorf, Germany