Autonomous system
AS12696 AXA-TECH Paris
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
AXA Technology Services
finance enterprise business
An insurer's IT arm, whose netnames number their pools to match the addresses they hold.
What it's used for
- Corporate networking for an insurance group. 26,368 addresses in nineteen IPv4 prefixes, 43 observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Fifteen of the nineteen prefixes come out of
171.18.0.0, a single legacy block cut into pieces. - The netnames number their pools:
AXA-GO-SEDC-POOL32holds171.18.32.0/21,AXA-GO-SEDC-POOL-80holds171.18.80.0/22, andAXA-GO-SEDC-SSN-PR-42holds171.18.42.0/23. - Others are
AXA-TECH-NET1,AXA-TECH-SEDC-MRand a bareAXA. - The contact on every record is
AXA GO abuse handling. - Eighteen sampled addresses were queried and none returned a name.
Interesting
- The number at the end of each netname is the third octet of the block it describes, which makes the registry self-indexing: read the name, know the addresses. It works because one team allocated all of it out of one
/16, and it would break the moment a block arrived from anywhere else. 171.18is legacy space from the era when a large company could ask for 65,536 addresses and be given them. The pieces announced here add up to well under half of that, so the rest is either used internally or sitting idle behind the aggregate.- 43 neighbours is a lot for an enterprise. An insurer connects to brokers, banks, clearing systems and its own offices, and each of those relationships is cheaper and more predictable as a direct session than as traffic crossing the public Internet.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.237.48 |
Transit providers
12 upstream, 0 downstream and 12 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-17, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 20 prefixes · 26.88K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| FR | France | 20 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12696- Registry name
- AXA-TECH
- Registrant
- AS12696-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@colt.net
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2025-01-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 118 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS12696
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 118 of 118 announcements
- Route objects
- 146 naming AS12696
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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