ASN lookup result for AS2856 British Telecommunications Limited — network size, BGP routing and registration

GBAS2856British Telecommunications LimitedISP

United Kingdom · RIPE NCCbt.com

Hosts top sitesHome broadbandTor relays

IPv4 addresses

13,947,136

545 announced prefixes

IPv6 addresses

1.07 × 10³¹

7 announced prefixes

BGP neighbours

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CAIDA rank

#330

Customer cone 157 ASNs

Estimated users

17.4M

APNIC: 17.4M

RPKI

71% valid

3 invalid · 157 not covered

Average purity

88

4,684 sampled IPs

IXPs / facilities

2 / 3

Operator self-reported

History

How prefixes were announced and changed hands, registration changes, and outage or hijack incidents.

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IP ranges

Currently announced prefixes with their RIR registration and geolocation.

PrefixRPKIRegistrationGeolocationAddresses
86.128.0.0/10ValidGBUK-BT-20050207RIPEGBDeptford4,194,304
81.128.0.0/11ValidGBUK-BT-20020725RIPEGBCity of Westminster2,097,152
86.128.0.0/11ValidGBBT-INFRARIPEGBDeptford2,097,152
81.128.0.0/12ValidGBBT-INFRARIPEGBCity of Westminster1,048,576
86.128.0.0/12ValidGBBT-INFRARIPEGBDeptford1,048,576
109.144.0.0/12ValidGBUK-BT-20090806RIPEGBUnited Kingdom1,048,576
217.32.0.0/12ValidGBUK-BT-20000920RIPEGBUnited Kingdom1,048,576
31.48.0.0/13ValidGBUK-BT-20101231RIPEGBCrawley524,288
95.144.0.0/13ValidGBUK-TM-20090119RIPEGBHaverfordwest524,288
31.100.0.0/14ValidGBUK-TM-20101125RIPEGBUnited Kingdom262,144
31.112.0.0/14ValidGBUK-TM-20101125RIPEGBPutney262,144
31.116.0.0/14ValidGBUK-TM-20101125RIPEGBUnited Kingdom262,144
147.148.0.0/14ValidGBBTRIPEGBDarwen262,144
194.72.0.0/14ValidGBUK-BT-961016RIPEGBNewport Pagnell262,144
213.120.0.0/14ValidGBUK-BT-20000403RIPEGBCoventry262,144
5.80.0.0/15ValidGBUK-BT-20120613RIPEGBGloucester131,072
31.90.0.0/15ValidGBUK-TM-20101125RIPEGBUnited Kingdom131,072
31.92.0.0/15ValidGBEEMobileRIPEGBRoyal Tunbridge Wells131,072
31.106.0.0/15ValidGBUK-TM-20101125RIPEGBUnited Kingdom131,072
31.122.0.0/15ValidGBUK-TM-20101125RIPEGBUnited Kingdom131,072

Only the first 500 prefixes are listed; address counts and geography use all prefixes.

/24 block profile

One square per /24: colour shows the risk type, shade how many addresses are flagged, stripes mark datacenter blocks. Click a square to see all 256 addresses.

/24s with data 2,396 / 54,481 (4%) · flagged 182

No risk flagsDatacenter (no flags)ProxyVPNAbuse / blocklistTorDarker = more flagged addresses; dashed = block screen only

86.128.0.0/101152/16384 with data · 51 flagged

81.128.0.0/11308/8192 with data · 27 flagged

109.144.0.0/12260/4096 with data · 16 flagged

31.48.0.0/13118/2048 with data · 8 flagged

217.32.0.0/1280/4096 with data · 8 flagged

95.144.0.0/1377/2048 with data · 2 flagged

31.94.0.0/1653/256 with data · 12 flagged

31.126.0.0/1535/512 with data · 1 flagged

109.180.0.0/1533/512 with data · 7 flagged

5.80.0.0/1532/512 with data · 2 flagged

213.120.0.0/1423/1024 with data · 4 flagged

165.120.0.0/1622/256 with data · 3 flagged

Hover a square for its numbers; click to see all 256 addresses.

Each prefix shows its 64 /24s with the most data. Built daily from lookups, neighbour sampling, public lists and block screening.

IP reputation

IPs from this network that CleanIP has analysed: purity, abuse reports and the riskiest /24 blocks.

Purity distribution

85–100 3,03970–84 1,54550–69 970–49 3

0.03%

Share of IPv4 reported or blocklisted

3,570

Listed IPs

4,684

Analysed IPs

Flagged = VPN, proxy, Tor or purity below 50. Samples come from user lookups and neighbour sampling, not every address in this network.

Geography

Where this network’s IPv4 addresses are located.

  • GB United Kingdom
  • DE Germany
  • US United States
  • LT Lithuania
  • GR Greece
Scope
Single country
In registered country
100.0%

Estimated by sampling IPv4 ranges against a geolocation database.

Traffic observation

AS2856 · Last 7 days
Mobile vs. Desktop
Desktop 47.1%Mobile 52.9%
Desktop47.1%Mobile52.9%
Bot vs. Human
Human 86.2%Bot 13.8%
Human86.2%Bot13.8%

Adoption & Usage

Adoption and usage of key protocols

Internet Protocol (IP) Version
IPv4 33.3%IPv6 66.7%66.7%IPv6
IPv433.3%IPv666.7%
HTTP Version
HTTP/1.x
12.5%HTTP/2
60.2%HTTP/3
27.4%
HTTP vs. HTTPS
98.5% HTTPS (encrypted)
Plain HTTP 1.5%
TLS Version
TLS 1.0/1.1< 0.1%TLS 1.25.9%TLS 1.366.3%QUIC27.8%

Security & Attacks

Insights into network and application layer attack traffic

Layer 7 Attacks
GET
85.3%POST
11.4%HEAD
1.5%OPTIONS
1.2%PATCH
0.5%Other
< 0.1%

BGP Announcements

Hourly BGP route announcements over the last 7 days

2,074,108
7-day total
149,945
Hourly peak

Data: Cloudflare Radar, licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

Activity

Hourly traffic over the last 7 days, normalized to this network’s peak.

A pronounced day/night rhythm, typical of networks with human users.

00061218
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
Times in UTCLessMore
Peak hour
19:00–20:00
Active hours
17 hrs
Weekend vs weekday
Weekdays ≈ weekends
Busiest day
Tue

Datacenter Presence

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BGP upstreams and neighbours

AS2856Standalone page
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WHOIS record

The registry’s record for this AS number: holder, status, dates and contacts.

Sources

Where the information on this page comes from and when it was updated.

InformationSourceUpdated
Registered countryRIR daily delegation statistics2026-10-20
Registered address & allocation dateRIR registration data (RDAP)2026-09-26
Organization & company countryAS-to-organization data2026-10-21
Network typeCleanIP ASN canon2026-10-21
Exchanges & facilitiesOperator self-reported interconnection data2026-10-21
Announced prefixes & BGP neighboursPublic BGP routing data2026-10-22
IPv4 geographyGeolocation database—
RPKI validationRPKI ROA validation data2026-10-22
Rank & customer coneCAIDA AS Rank2026-10-01
Estimated users (APNIC)APNIC Labs user estimates2026-10-19
Network tagsPublic routing data community tags2026-10-21
IP reputationCleanIP lookups and neighbour sampling—

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