Autonomous system
AS10821 PIONEERINTERNET
Residential ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
The Pioneer Telephone Association, Inc.
isp legacy
PIONEERINTERNET is the internet-facing AS of The Pioneer Telephone Association, Inc., a member-owned rural telephone cooperative in Ulysses, Kansas that trades as Pioneer Communications and serves subscribers across southwest Kansas.
What it's used for
Broadband access for a rural incumbent telco. RIS sees 34 announced IPv4 prefixes carrying roughly 24,576 addresses and no IPv6, against only 5 observed BGP neighbours. That combination is the classic shape of an eyeball network rather than a carrier: an access provider buys transit from a small number of upstreams and hands the addresses out to subscribers, whereas a wholesale transit AS of comparable size would peer with hundreds of others.
The reverse DNS makes the subscriber role explicit and even names the access technology. Sampled PTRs land on dsl-, fttp- and ss-* hostnames under pld.com, with router-style names under pioncomm.net — DSL lines, fibre-to-the-premises drops and other subscriber pools, exactly what a cooperative that has been rebuilding copper into fibre would present.
Notable
The announced space is spread across three unrelated legacy ranges — 24.224.0.0/19, 206.253.32.0/19 and 209.42.64.0/19 — plus a long tail of /21s, /23s and /24s deaggregated out of them. Carving a small allocation into dozens of more-specifics is normal for a co-op with many scattered exchanges and multiple upstream handoffs; it is traffic engineering, not evidence of resale.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Internet Exchange | Kansas City, United States | 206.51.7.218 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 12 prefixes · 24.58K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 12 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10821- Registry name
- PIONEERINTERNET
- Registrant
- The Pioneer Telephone Association, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- jeff.walker@pioncomm.net
- Registered
- 1997-12-05
- Last changed
- 2025-10-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- PIONEERINTERNET
- Also known as
- Pioneer Communications
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS10821:AS-PIONEER- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- https://www.pioncomm.net
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 26 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS10821
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 26 of 26 announcements
- Route objects
- 61 naming AS10821
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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