Autonomous system
AS11080 YKWC
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Yellowknife Wireless Company, LLC
isp legacy
Despite the far-northern name, YKWC is Yellowknife Wireless Company, LLC of Bend, Oregon — a fixed-wireless broadband provider (WISP) serving Central Oregon. ARIN records the AS to org handle YWCL at 1259 NE 2nd St, Bend, and the company's own site describes radio-delivered internet to homes and businesses around Bend, Redmond, Prineville, Madras, Sisters and La Pine.
What it's used for
Regional last-mile access. The AS announces 7 IPv4 prefixes (~4,096 addresses) and a single IPv6 /36, and is seen with only 2 observed neighbours in RIS — the signature of an edge network buying transit rather than selling it. That address count is tiny in absolute terms but entirely normal for a rural WISP, whose subscribers sit behind a small pool of routable space.
Notable
The prefix registrations tell the story of a network assembled from Oregon pieces rather than handed down in one block. Only some of the space is registered to YWCL/YKNET; the rest sits under separate ARIN handles (RELLIM, HOLLAND, APLATFORM/PLATFORM1), and the sampled reverse DNS matches — mail1.ykwc.com and mail2.ykwc.com alongside PTRs under coinet.com and rellim.com. First-party rDNS on the operator's own blocks plus small, findable US registrants on the rest reads as a local ISP carrying long-standing legacy and partner assignments, not as leased address inventory.
Interesting
The name is a genuine head-fake: nothing here touches Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Handle-to-geography guesses fail regularly in this range — treat the registered address, not the word, as the fact.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Central Oregon Internet eXchange | Bend, United States | 149.112.8.6 |
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 7 prefixes · 4.10K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 8 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11080- Registry name
- YKWC
- Registrant
- Yellowknife Wireless Company, LLC
- Abuse contact
- chris@nmedia.net
- Registered
- 2005-06-13
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 8 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11080
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 17 naming AS11080
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: 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