Autonomous system
AS10487 SIMPLENET
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Simple Network Communications (SimpleNet / Miva)
SIMPLENET is registered to Simple Network Communications, Inc. — SimpleNet, one of the earliest commercial web hosts, running a San Diego data centre since 1998. The space it announces today carries the e-commerce hosting estate of Miva, Inc., the San Diego shopping-cart software vendor behind Miva Merchant.
What it's used for
Shared, dedicated and e-commerce web hosting. RIS sees 7 announced IPv4 prefixes totalling 24,320 addresses, built around two /19s (216.188.160.0/19, 209.132.96.0/19), a /20, and smaller blocks down to 204.10.64.0/24. No IPv6 is announced, and only 1 neighbour is observed.
Notable
This is unambiguously hosting, and the reverse DNS is what settles it. Eight of the nine sampled addresses — spread across four different prefixes — resolve to static-assignment.mivamerchant.net. A single generic PTR repeated across an entire address range is the classic fingerprint of a server farm handing out addresses from a pool: every customer store gets an IP, none of them gets a bespoke hostname. Subscriber networks look nothing like this; they template the IP into the name.
The one observed neighbour matters too. A network with 24,000 addresses and a single upstream is a destination, not a carrier — it sells capacity on its own machines, not transit across someone else's.
Interesting
The odd 204.10.64.0/24 resolves to rtr-atl-int1-l0.net.hostasaurus.com, a router in Atlanta. Hostasaurus was a rival Miva Merchant host that Miva acquired outright in 2011; a decade and a half on, its routers still answer to their old name inside SimpleNet's AS — three merged hosting companies visible in one routing table.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS23005 | SWITCH, LTD | 445 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-22, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 24.32K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 8 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10487- Registry name
- SIMPLENET
- Registrant
- Simple Network Communications, Inc
- Abuse contact
- abuse@abuse.hostasaurus.com
- Registered
- 1997-08-26
- Last changed
- 2025-02-12
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 8 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10487
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 14 naming AS10487
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-23. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere