Autonomous system
AS14174 NCKCN
Unclassified ARIN Non-Profit
Summary
North Central Kansas Community Network Co.
isp telecom government
Three registrants written three different ways: one in capitals, one entirely in lower case, and a netname that is a backbone's name rather than anyone's.
What it's used for
- A community network serving a rural region. 17,664 addresses across eight IPv4 prefixes plus one IPv6 prefix,
2605:dc40::/32, with four observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Four blocks carry the netname
CC-4424, registered toCUNNINGHAM COMMUNICATIONS, INC. - Three carry the netname
SPRINTLINK, registered tonorth central regional planning, written without a single capital letter. - One more carries
SPRINT-C703D4, registered to the same lower-case name. - Two of eighteen sampled addresses returned a name:
ip-199-0-203-254.nckcn.comandip-205-161-27-254.nckcn.com.
Interesting
- A netname that names a national backbone on a block registered to a regional planning body records where the space came from, not who uses it. The backbone assigned it, the record kept the backbone's label, and the backbone itself is long gone.
- The trailing
C703D4reads as a hexadecimal identifier from the assigning system's own database. It was never meant to be read by anyone outside it, and it has outlived the system. - A regional planning commission holding address space and a phone company holding the rest is how rural connectivity actually got built: public bodies raised the money, a local operator ran the wires, and both ended up on the same AS.
- The case difference matters more than it looks. Anything grouping networks by registrant name has to normalise case, or these three records become three organisations.
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 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 8 prefixes · 17.66K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14174- Registry name
- NCKCN
- Registrant
- North Central Kansas Community Network Co.
- Abuse contact
- admin@nckcn.com
- Registered
- 1999-11-02
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- NCKCN
- Network type
- Non-Profit
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS14174:AS-ALL- Website
- https://www.nckcn.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
- 8% valid · 1 valid, 11 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS14174
- ASPA
- 5 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 12 of 12 announcements
- Route objects
- 24 naming AS14174
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