Autonomous system
AS13959 AUTOPHONE-OF-LAREDO - Autophone of Laredo
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Autophone of Laredo
isp telecom business
Two brands share one AS, and the reverse names divide the address space cleanly between them.
What it's used for
- A regional access provider. 3,072 addresses across five IPv4 prefixes, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Four blocks are netname
AUTOPHONE-NET, registered toAutophone of Laredo. - The fifth is
216.150.45.0/24, netnameAPL-45-0-24, registered toLaredoNet. - Reverse names fall under
autophone.netorlaredonet.netdepending on which block the address sits in. - Ten of fifteen sampled addresses returned a name.
Interesting
- The split is by block rather than by customer, which means the two brands are two products on one network. Whoever built it kept the boundary at the address level, so an address alone tells you which side of the business a subscriber bought from.
- The company name is a relic. It describes a telephone service that predates the internet business built on top of it, and it survives because the addresses and the AS number were registered under it and never moved.
- The odd netname out compresses the second brand to three letters and then spells the block out in full, which makes it the only record here that can be matched to its addresses without a lookup.
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 2026-11-09, 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 · 3.07K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS13959- Registry name
- AUTOPHONE-OF-LAREDO
- Registrant
- Autophone of Laredo
- Abuse contact
- boardman@autophone.net
- Registered
- 1999-09-23
- Last changed
- 2013-02-13
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 12 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 22 authorising AS13959
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 12 of 12 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS13959
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: 454 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-09. 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