Autonomous system
AS11589 STOWE-COMMUNICATIONS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Stowe Communications LLC
isp legacy
STOWE-COMMUNICATIONS is Stowe Communications LLC (formerly Stowe Cablevision), the local cable, fibre, telephone and TV provider for Stowe, Jeffersonville and Cambridge, Vermont.
What it's used for
The core of the AS is unmistakably an eyeball network. RIS shows 7 announced IPv4 prefixes, 5,376 addresses, no IPv6, and 4 observed neighbours. The largest block, 199.188.176.0/21, registers with the netname STOWE-CPE-SCOPE1 — customer premises equipment — and its reverse DNS is exactly what a small cable operator's subscriber pool looks like: gw.stoweaccess.com and cablepool3-5.stoweaccess.com. That is residential and small-business broadband under the company's own domain.
Notable
The remaining prefixes deserve a flag. 52.124.4.0/22, 198.212.196.0/23, 195.85.78.0/23, 160.223.200.0/23, 161.38.22.0/23 and 64.94.148.0/24 are scattered across unrelated ranges, all sharing one registrant netname (SCL-496, org Stowe Communications LLC), and together they account for more address space than the CPE pool does. That is a lot of transferred blocks for a three-town operator.
The sampled rDNS on 198.212.196.0/23 does not point at Stowe at all — it resolves to ns1327.ztomy.com, a zone with no relationship to the company. So the space is self-registered, which argues against brokerage, but at least part of it is not carrying Stowe subscribers.
The honest read: a real, findable Vermont cable ISP whose subscriber space is clear, plus acquired address blocks put to some other use this evidence does not identify. Classified residential on the core, at medium confidence, with the untidy remainder noted rather than explained away.
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 2026-10-21, 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 · 5.38K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11589- Registry name
- STOWE-COMMUNICATIONS
- Registrant
- Stowe Communications LLC
- Abuse contact
- rickr@stowecable.com
- Registered
- 2011-07-27
- Last changed
- 2020-02-05
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 7 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11589
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 11 naming AS11589
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-22. 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