Autonomous system
AS11594 APUA-
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA)
isp mobile government legacy
APUA-AG is the Antigua Public Utilities Authority, the statutory corporation that supplies electricity, water and telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda. Its telecoms arm (APUA inet / APUA PCS) is the national fixed and mobile operator.
What it's used for
RIS shows 51 announced IPv4 prefixes and 20,480 addresses, no IPv6, and 3 observed neighbours. Three upstreams against fifty prefixes is an island eyeball network buying international transit — not a carrier, which would show hundreds of neighbours.
The registrant section looks alarming at first glance and is entirely benign on inspection. Most of the announced space (38.2.64.0/19, 38.2.80.0/20, 38.131.16.0/20, 38.92.120.0/21 and their deaggregates) registers to Cogent Communications under COGENT-A; 69.79.208.0/22 registers to Columbus Networks USA. Both are upstream carriers, and 38/8 is Cogent's own allocation. Provider-assigned space announced by the customer's AS is a routine multihoming pattern, explicitly not the IP-leasing tell — that would require several unrelated registrants across multiple RIRs. APUA also holds its own block: 208.83.80.0/21 registers to APUA directly (APUA-AG1), and the sampled reverse DNS in it lands on mail.apua.ag, the utility's own mail host.
Notable
Twenty thousand addresses is a lot of space for a country of about 100,000 people, which is what a national incumbent looks like: fixed broadband, mobile data and the utility's own systems all numbered out of one AS. The mix is why the classification sits at medium rather than high — the space plainly carries subscribers, but it also carries a state-owned utility's internal networks and a mobile core, and this evidence cannot cleanly split them.
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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 2026-10-13, 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 · 20.48K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AG | Antigua and Barbuda | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11594- Registry name
- APUA-AG
- Registrant
- APUA
- Abuse contact
- ckelsick@apua.ag
- Registered
- 2007-05-23
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- APUA
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- Website
- http://www.apua.ag/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 6% valid · 3 valid, 44 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS11594
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 9% registered · 4 of 47 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS11594
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