Autonomous system
AS10939 PMG1 - Paxton Media Group, LLC.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Paxton Media Group
enterprise legacy
PMG1 belongs to Paxton Media Group, LLC — the family-owned newspaper and broadcast publisher headquartered in Paducah, Kentucky, which owns a large stable of daily and weekly papers across the American South and Midwest along with television interests.
What it's used for
RIS shows one IPv4 prefix, 204.245.111.0/24 (256 addresses), no IPv6, and 1 observed neighbour. That is a corporate network, full stop. A publisher of this kind needs public addresses for a mail perimeter, remote access for reporters and ad staff, and whatever editorial and production systems it still fronts directly; the bulk of its properties' websites will sit with commercial CMS and CDN providers rather than on this /24. The single BGP adjacency means the ASN is not even buying redundancy today — it exists mostly to give the company a portable block it can carry between providers.
Notable
The scale rules out the alternative reading. A media group with dozens of titles could plausibly have been a hosting operation for its own newspaper sites; 256 addresses and one upstream say it is not. Modern regional publishers consolidated their web presence onto shared platforms years ago, and the routing footprint here is consistent with exactly that: a headquarters network, not a content estate.
Interesting
The handle is one character of information and a digit — PMG1. It is a good example of why identification has to come from the registered holder string and the routing, not from the handle: on its own, PMG1 would tell you nothing at all.
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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 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10939- Registry name
- PMG1
- Registrant
- Paxton Media Group, LLC.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@vci.net
- Registered
- 2007-07-12
- Last changed
- 2022-10-27
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10939
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS10939
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: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-01. 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