Autonomous system
AS13727 ND-CA-ASN
Unclassified ARIN NSP
Summary
Next Dimension
isp business hosting
Seventeen upstreams for 3,072 addresses, with four of them named in the netnames of the space they sold.
What it's used for
- A Canadian business internet and managed services provider. 3,072 addresses across seven IPv4 prefixes, the IPv6 block
2606:7080::/32, and seventeen observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Four netnames each carry a different upstream's name alongside the operator's:
MNSI-NEXTD-BLK1,NEXTD-CGNT-NET-1,ND-LUMEN-1andBELL-NEXTD-BLK1. - Registrants on one block append both an abuse contact and a network operations centre.
- Some addresses answer as
ptr-216-8-178-254.ptr.nextdimensioninc.com, with the abbreviation for reverse records appearing twice in one name. 8.42.8.64answers as its own address in normal order, prepended to that same zone.- Customer machines answer under a customer label, as
nemak-mi.net.customer.nextdimensioninc.comandmpl-jda-mo.customer.nextdimensioninc.com, with short site codes. 216.8.177.255answers as a hostname naming a security appliance brand on a customer's own domain.
Interesting
- Seventeen neighbours against three thousand addresses is a provider whose product is connectivity choice rather than capacity. Four named upstreams in the registry and thirteen more in the routing data say the same thing twice.
- Customer names and site codes in reverse DNS map which businesses sit on which addresses, which is convenient for the help desk and equally convenient for anyone else.
- Naming the appliance brand on a customer's edge tells a reader what is filtering that connection before they send anything to it.
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 3 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.35.18 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.117 |
| United IX Chicago | Chicago, United States | 206.41.110.12 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 2 downstream and 18 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 2026-10-26, 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 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 8 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS13727- Registry name
- ND-CA-ASN
- Registrant
- NEXT DIMENSION INC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@nextdimensioninc.com
- Registered
- 2005-09-01
- Last changed
- 2024-12-17
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Next Dimension
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-NEXTD-CUSTOMERS- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://www.nextdimensioninc.com
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 92% valid · 11 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS13727
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 12 of 12 announcements
- Route objects
- 21 naming AS13727
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