Autonomous system
AS11278 NINTENDO - Nintendo Of America inc.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Nintendo of America Inc.
enterprise legacy
NINTENDO belongs to Nintendo of America Inc., the Redmond, Washington subsidiary that runs Nintendo's business in the Americas. The famous name invites the wrong conclusion, so read the routing before the brand: this is a corporate enterprise network, not the infrastructure that serves games and online play to consoles.
What it's used for
RIS observes 13 IPv4 prefixes carrying 3,328 addresses, one IPv6 prefix (2620:a0:e0::/48), and three observed neighbours. Three neighbours and roughly thirteen /24s' worth of space is an office network multihomed for resilience. It is nowhere near what would be needed to deliver eShop downloads, Switch Online matchmaking or game updates to tens of millions of consoles — that traffic rides commercial cloud and CDN platforms, on other companies' address space. What this AS carries is Nintendo of America's own edge: corporate connectivity for the Redmond campus, VPN and remote access, mail, authoritative DNS (205.166.76.133 answers as nsx2.nintendo.com), and the internal-facing infrastructure of a large games publisher and distributor.
Notable
The inventory is clean. The core of it is 192.159.184.0/22-through-/23 space registered as NINTEN to Nintendo Of America inc., plus 205.166.76.0/24 as NINTENDO-COM. The two handles that look foreign are not: LVLC-TND2 on 173.226.198.0/24 and Q1014-207-108-201-0 on 207.108.201.0/24 both record the org as Nintendo, and both are carrier-assigned space — Level 3 and Qwest respectively. The reverse DNS confirms it: 207.108.201.5 and .133 answer as cust.qwest.net, an upstream's default naming on a customer block. Provider-assigned space wearing the provider's rDNS is ordinary, and it is not an IP-leasing signal.
Interesting
The /24s carved out of 192.159.184.0/22 are announced both as the aggregate and as individual more-specifics. That deaggregation across a handful of small blocks, with a single /48 of IPv6 and no more, is a network built for an office, kept small on purpose, and left that way.
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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 2026-11-04, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 9 prefixes · 3.33K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 10 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11278- Registry name
- NINTENDO
- Registrant
- Nintendo Of America inc.
- Abuse contact
- arin@noa.nintendo.com
- Registered
- 1998-06-10
- Last changed
- 2023-03-15
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 14 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11278
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 36% registered · 5 of 14 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS11278
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: 453 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