AS49581

AS49581 is a German budget hosting/VPS network registered under RIPE to Ferdinand Zink trading as Tube-Hosting, based in Bad Königshofen. It is a small operator — roughly 38–39 IPv4 prefixes (~9,500 addresses) — that PeeringDB lists with a European scope and presence at DE-CIX Frankfurt, Frys-IX, ERA-IX, and others (about 14 IXes per bgp.he.net), with a public looking glass at lg.as49581.net and upstreams including GTT, aurologic, and Hurricane Electric. RPKI coverage is mostly valid. As a small multi-tenant budget host the standard caveat applies: IPs are shared and rented, so abuse attaches to tenants rather than to the operator. IPinfo flags at least one IP as a Tor exit and notes bittorrent activity on some addresses, which means a subset of IPs may be anonymity endpoints with unreliable per-IP geolocation and attribution. Beyond routine abuse-aggregator presence and that Tor-exit tag, no specific named-vendor incident report, sanctions, or law-enforcement action against the operator was found as of June 2026.

Operator

Ferdinand Zink trading as Tube-Hosting (RIPE org ORG-FZTA2-RIPE, LIR) [Confirmed] — RIPE WHOIS

Country / RIR

Germany (Bad Königshofen i. Grabfeld), RIPE [Confirmed]

Allocated

ASN created 2022-03-07 (org/maintainer 2021-11-16) [Confirmed]

Org status

active — tube-hosting.com

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED, SOURCED — multi-tenant)

shared/rented budget-host IPs; abuse attaches to tenants. IPinfo flags at least one IP as a Tor exit ("routes anonymous traffic from the Tor network") and notes bittorrent activity as of early 2026. Beyond aggregator presence and the Tor-exit tag, no specific named-vendor incident, sanctions, or LE action against the operator found as of 2026-06-07 — ipinfo.io

Network & routing

Network type

hosting-VPS (budget host, Germany/France) [Confirmed]

Size

~38–39 IPv4 prefixes (~9,472–9,984 addrs) — bgp.he.net / bgp.tools (2026-06)

Routing/peering

upstreams GTT (AS3257), AS44592, aurologic (AS30823), Hurricane Electric (AS6939); 14 IXes (DE-CIX Frankfurt, Frys-IX, ERA-IX); RPKI mostly valid (~36–39 valid, ~1 invalid); looking glass lg.as49581.net — bgp.he.net, bgp.tools

Notable usage

budget hosting/VPS provider; PeeringDB lists Enterprise/NSP, claimed 500–1000 Gbps, mostly outbound, European scope — tube-hosting.com

Related ASNs

unknown

Analyst note

Small multi-tenant German budget host; attribute to tenants. Some IPs are Tor exits / anonymity endpoints, so per-IP geolocation and attribution can be unreliable.