Network operator
Hydra Communications Ltd
5 networks combined into one view.
Operators are grouped by registered network name. Each figure below is the total across every network on this page, which is what a single network page cannot show.
What this tells you
- An estimated 104,085 people use this operator's 5 networks, from 33,023 observations over a 60 day window.
- 65,257 of those are in United Kingdom, 0.1% of everyone online there.
- Address space is concentrated in United Kingdom (71% of the IPv4 space), across 23 countries in total.
- Carries VPN exit infrastructure for NordVPN, ProtonVPN, Surfshark and 4 other providers.
Countries in this space
Space we can place in a country covers 100% of these networks' IPv4 space and 100% of their IPv6 space. The table below divides that space.
| Country | IPv4 share | IPv6 share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 71% | 99% | |
| Japan | 6% | <0.1% | |
| Switzerland | 4% | <0.1% | |
| United States | 4% | <0.1% | |
| France | 3% | <0.1% | |
| Netherlands | 3% | <0.1% | |
| Israel | 2% | - | |
| Romania | 2% | - | |
| Germany | 1% | <0.1% | |
| India | 0.2% | <0.1% | |
| Everything else (13 more) | 5% | - |
Organisations holding assignments here
Registered organisations account for 96% of these networks' IPv4 space and 100% of their 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 ARIN and LACNIC do not publish theirs, so space held in North and South America is largely unattributed here.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 | 51% | 100% | |
| Sky UK Limited | 8% | - | |
| Internet Utilities Europe and Asia Limited | 7% | - | |
| GCI Network Solutions Limited | 6% | - | |
| SIA "BITE Latvija" | 3% | - | |
| GTT - EMEA Ltd. | 3% | - | |
| Bezeq International Ltd. | 3% | - | |
| Viaduk-Telecom, LLC | 1% | - | |
| Infrawatch Limited | 0.9% | <0.1% | |
| Owned-Networks LLC | 0.3% | <0.1% | |
| xilo Ltd. | 0.2% | <0.1% | |
| Everything else (56 more) | 16% | <0.1% |
Anonymizer signals
Flagged space covers 93% of these networks' IPv4 space and 100% of their 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 these networks
Space published by a named VPN provider covers 0.4% of these networks' 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 | 0.4% | |
| Windscribe | 0.1% | |
| FastestVPN | 0.1% |
All 5 networks run by this operator
| ASN | Name | Estimated users |
|---|---|---|
| AS25369 | Hydra Communications Ltd | 97,802 |
| AS58325 | Hydra Communications Ltd | 6,283 |
| AS49999 | Hydra Communications Ltd | - |
| AS52167 | Hydra Communications Ltd | - |
| AS200039 | Hydra Communications Ltd | - |
Every figure on this page is also JSON: /api/v2/directory/isp/hydra-communications-ltd. Breakdowns paginate from there, so a table showing the largest rows here returns all of them. Read the API.