Autonomous system
AS12042 ENVENTIS
Residential ARIN
Summary
Consolidated Communications (Fidium)
isp dsl residential legacy
A Minnesota-rooted regional telephone network now part of Consolidated Communications, whose consumer fiber brand is Fidium.
What it's used for
- Residential and business broadband across a rural and small-city footprint in the upper Midwest, spanning legacy DSL and newer fiber.
Notable
- The registry records a corporate lineage rather than a single company. Blocks are held under
HickoryTech Corporation, theENVENTISandCONSOnetnames, andFidium— the Mankato, Minnesota telco that became Enventis, was bought by Consolidated in 2014, and now sells fiber under the Fidium name. - Reverse DNS preserves the same history in parallel: sampled addresses answer under
hickorytech.net,cpinternet.comandcptelecom.net, three brands that predate the current one. - One group of prefixes is registered to
IdeaOne Telecom, a Fargo, North Dakota operator absorbed into the same group.
Interesting
- 123 prefixes for 147,000 addresses. Rollups of independent rural telcos always look like this — the fragmentation is a record of how many separate companies were bought.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange | Minneapolis, United States | 206.108.255.18 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 123 prefixes · 147K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 125 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12042- Registry name
- ENVENTIS
- Registrant
- Fidium
- Abuse contact
- abuse@consolidated.net
- Registered
- 1999-03-09
- Last changed
- 2019-06-14
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 140 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS12042
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99% registered · 138 of 140 announcements
- Route objects
- 149 naming AS12042
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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