Autonomous system
AS152179: GLOBAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK LIMITED
United States · consumer access network · registered in Hong Kong
Estimated users is a published estimate of how many people use this network, extrapolated from 5,299 observations over a 60 day window. Large operators often run several networks, so a low figure can mean their customers reach the internet through a sibling network.
What this tells you
- Carries VPN exit infrastructure for HideMyAss.
- Its space resolves to 28 countries, concentrated in United States (21% of the IPv4 space), a multinational footprint.
- An estimated 6,448 people using this network are in United Kingdom, the largest of the 19 countries it serves, <0.1% of everyone online there.
- The same operator runs 1 other network, listed below.
Countries in this space
Space we can place in a country covers 100% of this network's IPv4 space and 100% of its IPv6 space. The table below divides that space.
| Country | IPv4 share | IPv6 share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 21% | - | |
| Hong Kong | 14% | <0.1% | |
| China | 14% | - | |
| Germany | 6% | - | |
| Thailand | 6% | - | |
| Japan | 5% | - | |
| India | 4% | - | |
| Malaysia | 4% | - | |
| Lithuania | 0.2% | 86% | |
| Netherlands | 0.2% | 14% | |
| Everything else (18 more) | 25% | - |
Organisations holding assignments here
Registered organisations account for 43% of this network's IPv4 space and 100% of its IPv6 space. The table below divides that space. Registered holders come from the bulk whois that RIPE, APNIC and AFRINIC publish. ARIN and LACNIC do not publish theirs, so space held in North and South America is largely unattributed here.
| Organisation | IPv4 share | IPv6 share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLOBAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK LIMITED | 30% | <0.1% | |
| Eons Data Communications Limited | 11% | - | |
| Cerner Health Services Deutschland GmbH | 8% | - | |
| Ace Data Centers II, LLC | 6% | - | |
| Wirulink Pty Ltd | 5% | - | |
| TENGSHENG TECH LIMITED | 5% | - | |
| Dream Information Laboratory LLC | 5% | - | |
| Internet Utilities Europe and Asia Limited | 4% | - | |
| UAB Linama | - | 86% | |
| Kirsty Koning | - | 14% | |
| Everything else (22 more) | 26% | - |
Anonymizer signals
Flagged space covers 15% of this network's IPv4 space. The table below divides that space.
| Category | IPv4 share | |
|---|---|---|
| Open proxy | 100% | |
| Datacenter | 47% | |
| VPN | 16% |
One address can carry more than one of these, so the rows add up to more than the space they cover.
VPN operators using this network
Space published by a named VPN provider covers <0.1% of this network's IPv4 space. The table below divides that space. That counts only what providers publish as their own exits. Space merely associated with VPN use is wider, and is counted under Anonymizer signals above.
| Provider | IPv4 share | |
|---|---|---|
| HideMyAss | 100% |
Other networks from this operator
| ASN | Name | Estimated users |
|---|---|---|
| AS148996 | GLOBAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK LIMITED | 200 |
See the combined view for GLOBAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK LIMITED, where all 2 of their networks are totalled together.
Every figure on this page is also JSON: /api/v2/directory/asn/152179. Breakdowns paginate from there, so a table showing the largest rows here returns all of them. Read the API.