Autonomous system
AS10930 NOVA-INTERNET - Nova Internet Services, Inc.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Nova Internet Services
hosting isp legacy
NOVA-INTERNET is Nova Internet Services, Inc., a small independent provider registered in Dallas, Texas, selling business Internet access along with web hosting, dedicated servers and colocation. Its address space was allocated in the late 1990s and it has been announcing essentially the same six /24s ever since.
What it's used for
RIS sees 6 IPv4 prefixes / 1,536 addresses — including 209.251.224.0/24 and 209.251.229.0/24 — no IPv6, and 2 observed neighbours. The reverse DNS is where the current use shows through. Most of the sampled addresses answer with the provider's own generic pattern (5.225.251.209.nova-net.net), but the ones that have been customised are servers, not subscribers: seavoyage.com, mail.betadesigns.com, mail.tbfaa.org. Third-party web and mail hosts sitting on the provider's space is the reverse-DNS signature of hosting and colocation.
Notable
Six /24s announced individually rather than as one /22 and two /24s is the default behaviour of an operator who never revisited its BGP config after the blocks arrived. It is harmless at this scale, and it is a good marker of a long-lived, low-churn network.
Interesting
The name is a collision hazard. There are unrelated "Nova" networks — a Spanish ISP, a cable operator in Illinois — and none of them is this one. The evidence that pins it down is first-party: the nova-net.net reverse DNS on its own blocks. Self-registered contiguous space wearing the holder's own rDNS is what separates a real, if small, operator from the scattered, PTR-less shape of an address broker.
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
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 2026-11-04, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 1.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10930- Registry name
- NOVA-INTERNET
- Registrant
- Nova Internet Services, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- chris@nova1.net
- Registered
- 1998-01-30
- Last changed
- 2022-11-25
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 6 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS10930
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 91 naming AS10930
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: 452 networks and 1,853 prefixes, as published 2026-11-05. 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