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root S.A. IP ranges
root S.A.: 6 datacenter IP ranges, 94,720 IPv4 addresses (0.04% of listed datacenter space). Largest blocks, ASNs, countries and what root S.A. traffic means.
At a glance
- Name
- root S.A.
- Type
- Datacenter / hosting
- Share of datacenter space
- 0.04%
- Website
- www.site.lu
- Country
- Luxembourg, United States, Germany
- Largest range
- 188.42.0.0/16
Networks announcing these ranges
Where the ranges are located
Sample cities: Sterling, Frankfurt am Main, Luxembourg, Bissen
Largest IP ranges
| CIDR | First address | Last address | Addresses |
|---|---|---|---|
| 188.42.0.0/16 | 188.42.0.0 | 188.42.255.255 | 65,536 |
| 94.242.192.0/18 | 94.242.192.0 | 94.242.255.255 | 16,384 |
| 212.117.160.0/19 | 212.117.160.0 | 212.117.191.255 | 8,192 |
| 83.243.8.0/21 | 83.243.8.0 | 83.243.15.255 | 2,048 |
| 195.24.72.0/21 | 195.24.72.0 | 195.24.79.255 | 2,048 |
| 195.26.4.0/23 | 195.26.4.0 | 195.26.5.255 | 512 |
What traffic from root S.A. means for a website
Every address in these 6 ranges belongs to root S.A. infrastructure — virtual machines, containers, load balancers or edge nodes — rather than to an end-user's broadband or mobile line. A request from one of them is therefore a server talking to your server: a crawler, a monitoring probe, an API client, a scraper or a VPN/proxy exit hosted on root S.A..
That is why fraud and abuse systems treat datacenter origins differently from residential ones: a sign-up, a vote or an ad click from a root S.A. address is unlikely to be an ordinary person at home. The sensible response is not a blanket block (legitimate bots and corporate VPNs live here too) but a lower trust score, stricter rate limits or a challenge.
To test a single address, run it through the proxy checker: it reports the datacenter match, the announcing network and whether the address also appears on Tor or blocklists. Proxy & VPN detector →
How this page is built
Ranges come from the open datacenter list (client9/ipcat) refreshed by our cron jobs; the announcing networks are looked up in iptoasn routing data and locations in DB-IP Lite (CC BY 4.0) using one address per sampled range. Counts are recomputed daily.