Autonomous system
AS13427 SOFTCOM
Residential APNIC
Summary
Softcom Internet Communications
isp telecom business
The access technology is written into each hostname, and it changes address by address inside one /24.
What it's used for
- A rural United States internet provider. 5,888 addresses across five IPv4 prefixes, eight observed BGP neighbours, and the IPv6 block
2604:8d80::/32.
Notable
- Netnames are an unbroken series,
SOFTCOM-IP-ALLOC-1throughSOFTCOM-IP-ALLOC-5, one per block. - Sampled names carry four different labels:
lte,pppoe,dynamicandstatic, each followed bycustomer. - Within
192.96.17.0/24two addresses arestaticand a third ispppoe. - Thirteen of fifteen sampled addresses answered.
Interesting
- The technology label changing inside a single /24 means the zone is generated per subscriber from the provisioning system rather than per block from a template. Whatever the customer is connected by, the record says so, and moving a customer from one technology to another rewrites their name.
- Fixed wireless and telephone-line connections drawn from the same address pool is how a rural provider works. The pool is a pool; the last mile is whatever reaches the house.
- Five allocations numbered in order with no gaps is unusual. Most providers of this size show at least one label from an earlier convention, and this one renamed everything to match.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange San Jose (Bay Area) | San Jose, United States | 206.223.116.2 |
| San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange | San Francisco, United States | 206.197.187.48 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 5.89K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS13427- Registry name
- SOFTCOM
- Registrant
- Softcom Internet Communications, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@softcom.net
- Registered
- 1999-06-03
- Last changed
- 2021-02-23
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 6 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS13427
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS13427
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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