Autonomous system
AS10721 THEAN8
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
The Andersons, Inc.
enterprise legacy
THEAN8 belongs to The Andersons, Inc., the Ohio agribusiness group that trades grain, blends and distributes plant nutrients, and operates rail-car leasing and repair. The cryptic handle is just a compressed company name, not a product or a network role.
What it's used for
This is a small enterprise edge. RIS observes 3 announced IPv4 prefixes, 768 addresses, no IPv6, and only 2 observed neighbours. Two neighbours is about as close to the floor as a multihomed network gets: one primary upstream and one backup. A transit or hosting business at any size peers far more widely, so the routing shape alone rules out a service-provider role and leaves a company routing its own space.
The three prefixes are instructive about how such a network is assembled over time: 161.199.159.0/24 and 169.197.148.0/24 are ordinary provider-independent /24s, while 12.3.223.0/24 sits inside 12.0.0.0/8 — legacy AT&T space, which for a customer of this size almost always means a block assigned out of an AT&T circuit and then originated by the customer's own ASN. That mix is typical of an enterprise that has changed carriers over the years and kept announcing what it was given.
Notable
Roughly 768 routable addresses is a corporate-perimeter footprint: mail and web gateways, remote-access endpoints, and connectivity for grain elevators, terminals and retail sites, with the bulk of internal traffic riding private WAN links that never appear in BGP.
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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 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10721- Registry name
- THEAN8
- Registrant
- The Andersons Inc
- Abuse contact
- info-sec@AndersonsInc.Com
- Registered
- 2011-02-04
- Last changed
- 2015-12-22
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10721
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS10721
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: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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