Autonomous system
AS25369: Hydra Communications Ltd
United Kingdom · hosting / infrastructure
Estimated users is a published estimate of how many people use this network, extrapolated from 52,346 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
- Hosts exit infrastructure for 6 different VPN brands, among them NordVPN, ProtonVPN and Surfshark. That is characteristic of a provider that rents capacity to several VPN operators.
- Its space resolves to 23 countries, concentrated in United Kingdom (75% of the IPv4 space), a multinational footprint.
- An estimated 65,257 people using this network are in United Kingdom, the largest of the 7 countries it serves, 0.1% of everyone online there.
- The same operator runs 4 other networks, listed below.
- 64 distinct organisations hold registered assignments inside this space, so an address here often belongs to one of their customers.
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 Kingdom | 75% | 99% | |
| Switzerland | 4% | <0.1% | |
| France | 3% | <0.1% | |
| Netherlands | 3% | <0.1% | |
| United States | 3% | <0.1% | |
| Israel | 2% | - | |
| Romania | 2% | - | |
| Germany | 1% | <0.1% | |
| India | 0.2% | <0.1% | |
| Everything else (14 more) | 5% | - |
Organisations holding assignments here
Registered organisations account for 96% 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 ARIN and LACNIC do not publish theirs, so space held in North and South America is largely unattributed here.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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hydra Communications Ltd | 54% | 100% | |
| Sky UK Limited | 7% | - | |
| Internet Utilities Europe and Asia Limited | 7% | - | |
| GCI Network Solutions Limited | 6% | - | |
| SIA "BITE Latvija" | 4% | - | |
| Bezeq International Ltd. | 3% | - | |
| GTT - EMEA Ltd. | 2% | - | |
| Infrawatch Limited | 0.9% | <0.1% | |
| Owned-Networks LLC | 0.4% | <0.1% | |
| xilo Ltd. | 0.2% | <0.1% | |
| Everything else (54 more) | 16% | <0.1% |
Anonymizer signals
Flagged space covers 99% of this network's IPv4 space and 100% of its IPv6 space. The table below divides that space.
| Category | IPv4 share | IPv6 share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open proxy | 100% | 100% | |
| Datacenter | 99% | 100% | |
| VPN | 12% | - |
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 0.5% 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| NordVPN | 90% | |
| ProtonVPN | 5% | |
| Surfshark | 3% | |
| IPVanish | 2% | |
| PureVPN | 0.5% | |
| Windscribe | 0.2% |
Other networks from this operator
| ASN | Name | Estimated users |
|---|---|---|
| AS58325 | Hydra Communications Ltd | 6,283 |
| AS49999 | Hydra Communications Ltd | - |
| AS52167 | Hydra Communications Ltd | - |
| AS200039 | Hydra Communications Ltd | - |
See the combined view for Hydra Communications Ltd, where all 5 of their networks are totalled together.
Every figure on this page is also JSON: /api/v2/directory/asn/25369. Breakdowns paginate from there, so a table showing the largest rows here returns all of them. Read the API.