Autonomous system
AS10668 LEE-ASN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Lee Enterprises, Incorporated
enterprise hosting legacy
LEE-ASN is Lee Enterprises, Incorporated, the American local-news publisher headquartered in Davenport, Iowa, which owns daily and weekly newspapers and their websites across dozens of markets.
What it's used for
Two different things, and the reverse DNS separates them cleanly.
The AS announces 6 IPv4 prefixes totalling 11,264 addresses, no IPv6, and RIS sees four observed neighbours. Four neighbours is an end-site multi-homing for resilience, not a carrier.
Most of the space, the 192.104.192.0/19 and 192.104.224.0/21, plus 209.96.3.0/24, samples with PTRs under rev.lee.net, the publisher's own domain. But three /24s, 192.104.182.0/24, 192.104.183.0/24 and 192.104.185.0/24, sample under rev.tn-cloud.net. That is TownNews, now BLOX Digital, the news content-management and hosting SaaS that Lee majority-owns. Its BLOX CMS platform runs the websites of a large share of the US local-news industry, including many publishers unrelated to Lee.
So this is not purely a corporate network. Part of it is a media company's own estate, and part of it is a hosting platform whose tenants are third-party newspapers.
Notable
This is a clean worked example of classifying by what the space carries rather than by what the holder is. The holder is a newspaper publisher, which sounds like a straightforward enterprise. The inventory shows a media SaaS platform living inside the same ASN, and any classifier that stops at the corporate name will mislabel the tenants' traffic.
Interesting
The 192.104.0.0 range is old class-C territory, and Lee sits in it with a /19 and a /21 carved from the same parent, an early publisher-sized allocation that later turned out to be big enough to host a chunk of the industry's websites as well.
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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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 11.26K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10668- Registry name
- LEE-ASN
- Registrant
- Lee Enterprises, Incorporated
- Abuse contact
- abuse@lee.net
- Registered
- 1997-10-21
- Last changed
- 2004-04-05
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 33% valid · 2 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS10668
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 13 naming AS10668
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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 1,772 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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