Autonomous system
AS10806 AFP-NET
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Agence France-Presse
enterprise legacy
AFP-NET is the network of Agence France-Presse, the Paris-headquartered international news agency and one of the three global wire services alongside Reuters and the Associated Press. RIS sees 17 IPv4 prefixes carrying 42,496 addresses, no IPv6, and 6 observed neighbours.
What it's used for
AFP's own global newsgathering and distribution estate. Every announcement comes from a single legacy /16, 158.50.0.0/16: a 158.50.128.0/17, the /18s and /20s inside it, and a tail of /24s. That address space carries the agency's bureaux, its content-distribution and wire-feed systems for subscribing newspapers, broadcasters and platforms, its photo and video archives, and the internal infrastructure connecting a newsroom operation that runs across dozens of countries.
Notable
The shape is enterprise, not carrier. Six observed neighbours against 42,000 addresses means AFP buys a small number of upstreams and sells transit to nobody. The address holding is large for the headcount because it is old: an organisation that got on the internet early received a /16 when a /16 was routine, and has never had to give it back or squeeze it.
Interesting
The deaggregation down to /24s scattered through the /16 is characteristic of a network with many small remote sites: each bureau or regional hub gets a piece of the legacy block announced specifically enough to steer traffic to it. AFP is a sui generis body under French law, chartered by statute but editorially independent of the state, so despite the state involvement in its funding this is best read as a media enterprise network rather than a government one.
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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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 16 prefixes · 42.50K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 16 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10806- Registry name
- AFP-NET
- Registrant
- AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
- Abuse contact
- noc@afp.com
- Registered
- 1997-12-02
- Last changed
- 2011-06-06
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 17 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10806
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 17 of 17 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS10806
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: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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