Autonomous system
AS11199 SHOWNETSAS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
showNets LLC
isp enterprise legacy
SHOWNETSAS is showNets LLC, an Arizona company that designs and runs the temporary networks behind trade shows, conferences and convention-centre events — high-density Wi-Fi, exhibitor internet, and the venue-side infrastructure that carries it. ARIN registers the organisation (handle SHOWN) in Scottsdale.
What it's used for
Event and venue connectivity. RIS observes three IPv4 prefixes — 192.251.104.0/24, 192.251.105.0/24 and 208.78.239.0/24, 768 addresses in total — no IPv6, and four BGP neighbours. The small, portable address footprint fits the business: a show network is built, used hard for a few days, and torn down, and what has to be stable across all of that is a modest pool of publicly routable space that can follow the company from venue to venue.
Notable
Two of the three prefixes carry the ARIN network name FACILITIES-NETWORKS, which at first glance reads like a different registrant — the pattern that would flag an address-leasing operation. RDAP settles it: that block is registered to showNets LLC itself, at the same Scottsdale address as the third prefix. FACILITIES-NETWORKS is a network label, not a third party. The AS announces only its own space.
This is worth stating explicitly, because a network name and a registrant organisation are different fields and confusing them is exactly how a legitimate operator gets mislabelled as a broker.
Interesting
showNets is a direct competitor of AS11192 (Smart City Networks), which serves the same convention-centre market — the two sit eight AS numbers apart.
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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 2 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11199- Registry name
- SHOWNETSAS
- Registrant
- showNets LLC
- Abuse contact
- wbishop@shownets.net
- Registered
- 2007-05-21
- Last changed
- 2012-03-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11199
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 67% registered · 2 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 16 naming AS11199
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: 442 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