Autonomous system
AS13700 -Reserved AS-
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
NexusWave
isp hosting business
Netnames encode each block's first two octets, and one of them gets its own address wrong.
What it's used for
- A network operator carrying space registered to a carrier. 3,072 addresses across seven IPv4 prefixes, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The AS handle reads
-Reserved AS-even though the holder record names a company. - Six blocks are registered to a carrier, each netname being an abbreviation plus the block's first two octets.
198.173.162.0/23is netnameNTTA-198-170, naming a range three ahead of the one it covers.- Two blocks in
168.143share one netname, so that field describes the parent rather than the piece. - Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A netname built from the address is self-checking by design, which is what makes the mismatch visible. Every other block in the set agrees with itself, and this one does not, so the error is in the field rather than in the announcement.
- A placeholder handle sitting on a named, actively announced AS is the routing registry contradicting itself. The number was marked reserved and then used, and nobody went back.
- The operator's own name appears nowhere in any netname. Everything in the registry names the carrier the space was bought from.
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 2026-10-26, 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 · 3.07K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS13700- Registry name
- NEXUSWAVE-COMMUNICATIONS-INC
- Registrant
- NexusWave
- Abuse contact
- jidong@nexuswaveisp.com
- Registered
- 2026-03-18
- Last changed
- 2026-07-16
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 7 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 58 authorising AS13700
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 14% registered · 1 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 40 naming AS13700
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: 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