AS24940: Hetzner Online GmbH
AS24940 is a hosting network: it runs servers in Germany, not home or mobile connections. A visitor from one of its addresses is usually a VPN, proxy, scraper or bot, and Fidro adds 15 points to that IP's risk score.
ASN
AS24940
Registered name
HETZNER-AS Hetzner Online GmbH
Country
Germany (DE)
Network type
Hosting / datacenter
IPv4 addresses
3.24 million
Announced ranges
83
Risk signals in AS24940
Counts of addresses inside this network that appear on the lists Fidro checks every IP against, as of 3 November 2026.
0
Tor exit nodes (+50 each)
16
Open proxies (+25 each)
1,086
Abuse-listed IPs (+40 each)
Every address in AS24940 also carries the datacenter flag (+15). The rest of an IP's score depends on that one address, so check the exact IP rather than judging the whole network.
What AS24940 traffic means for signups and payments
Hosting networks host servers. Real customers on home broadband or mobile data almost never appear on one, unless they are on a VPN or a corporate proxy. Scripts, scrapers and fake-account farms, on the other hand, live there.
Signups
A burst of signups from AS24940 is a strong sign of automation, especially on a free tier. Rate-limit by network, require email verification, and block when the same network also brings disposable emails.
Payments and APIs
Card checks from a server are almost never a person at checkout. For APIs, server traffic from AS24940 can be legitimate (your customers' backends), so allow-list known integrations instead of blocking the whole network.
Largest IP ranges in AS24940
The biggest IPv4 blocks this network announces, out of 83 ranges in total.
Check an IP from AS24940
Get the full fraud score for a single address, or put the same checks in your signup and checkout with one API call. Free plan: 200 lookups a month, no card.
Questions about AS24940
Is AS24940 a VPN or hosting network?
AS24940 (Hetzner Online GmbH) is a hosting network: it runs servers, not home or mobile connections. Fidro flags its addresses as datacenter IPs. A real customer rarely browses from one, but VPNs, proxies, scrapers and bots often do.
Should I block signups from AS24940?
Usually not outright. An IP from AS24940 adds 15 points to Fidro's risk score, which on its own lands in the accept band (0 to 20), where one more warning sign tips it into a challenge. Challenge it (email verification, a captcha, a card check) and block when other signals stack up, such as a disposable email, an abuse-listed IP or a country mismatch.
How do I check an IP address from AS24940?
Paste it into Fidro's free IP fraud score checker. It shows the network, every risk signal and a 0 to 100 score. In your own app, one call to Fidro's API returns the same checks plus the email and the user's history.
Similar hosting networks
Sources: network lists from X4BNet lists_vpn (MIT), names and ranges from iptoasn.com (public domain), Tor exits from the Tor Project, open proxies and abuse lists from the public feeds Fidro imports.