Autonomous system
AS13468 KOS-1193
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Kingston Online Services
isp telecom business
Reverse names encode the exchange and the access technology, and one of them is somebody's name.
What it's used for
- A regional internet provider's network. 16,896 addresses across four IPv4 prefixes, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Three blocks are netname
KOS;199.246.2.0/23is netnameKOSONE-COM. - Sampled names include
ka-wrl-kgn-ip6254.kos.netandsf-cbl-kico5-ip3254.kos.net. - A third sampled address answers with a person's own name as two labels ahead of the domain.
- Twelve addresses were queried and three answered.
Interesting
- Each name is a small record of how that customer connects. Labels before the address mark a site, a technology such as cable, and an equipment identifier, so the reverse zone doubles as an inventory of the access network.
- The netname ending
-COMis a domain with its dot hyphenated, because registry identifiers cannot contain dots. It preserves a second domain the provider used alongside the one in DNS today. - A subscriber's personal name in a public reverse record is a habit from when an internet provider knew its customers individually and a hostname was a courtesy. It has outlived the era that made it normal, and the record is still answering.
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 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 16.90K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS13468- Registry name
- KOS-1193
- Registrant
- Kingston Online Services
- Abuse contact
- abuse@kos.net
- Registered
- 2009-10-27
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 10 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 10 authorising AS13468
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 10 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 13 naming AS13468
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 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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