Autonomous system
AS13768 COGECO-PEER1
Hosting DROP-listed space ARIN NSP
Summary
Aptum Technologies
hosting telecom transit
Two addresses in completely different blocks answer with exactly the same hostname.
What it's used for
- A hosting and connectivity provider. 619,008 addresses across 432 IPv4 prefixes, 18 IPv6 prefixes, and 38 observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
216.65.32.0and66.40.16.0both answer ashost0.maxim.net.216.65.63.255and66.40.31.255both answer ashost255.maxim.net.- The names encode only the final octet, so every block using the scheme produces the same set.
216.157.64.0/19is netname216-157-0-0-NETand64.224.192.0/19is64-224-0-0-NET, each naming a parent rather than the block itself.5.44.16.0/20is netnameUK-COGECOPEER1-20120522, a country, two brands and a date.- One registrant appends a role for enforcing the acceptable use policy.
Interesting
- A reverse name that encodes one octet cannot distinguish addresses in different blocks, and here two pairs of addresses prove it: same name, same zone, four separate addresses. Anyone resolving forward from that name gets one answer, and it will be wrong for at least one of them.
- Netnames naming the parent block instead of the assignment make the registry describe a larger range than was actually delegated, which is the opposite of what a netname is for.
- Four brands appear in the reverse names alone, on top of the two in the handle and the several in the registry.
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 12 exchanges in 4 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 2001:7f8::35c8:0:1 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.156 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 2001:504:0:2:0:1:3768:1 |
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.80.38 |
| Any2 California | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.210.79 |
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.34.159 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 2001:504:0:4:0:1:3768:1 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.223.118.30 |
Transit providers
13 upstream, 19 downstream and 44 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 423 prefixes · 616K addresses IPv6 16 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 439 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS13768- Registry name
- COGECO-PEER1
- Registrant
- Aptum Technologies
- Abuse contact
- abuse@aptum.com
- Registered
- 2002-06-10
- Last changed
- 2017-11-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Aptum Technologies
- Also known as
- Cogeco Peer1
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS13768:AS-CUSTOMERS- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 7 facilities
- Website
- https://aptum.com/contact/
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
- 23% valid · 118 valid, 385 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 148 authorising AS13768
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 97% registered · 490 of 503 announcements 5 other origin
- Route objects
- 1,006 naming AS13768
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
3 DROP matches Announced space overlapping the DROP prefix list.
| Announced | DROP entry | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 173.44.0.0/24 | 173.44.0.0/19 | SBL682084 |
| 173.44.3.0/24 | 173.44.0.0/19 | SBL682084 |
| 173.44.7.0/24 | 173.44.0.0/19 | SBL682084 |
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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