Autonomous system
AS1421 WANSEC - WANSecurity, Inc.
Hosting ARIN
Summary
WANSecurity, Inc.
transit legacy
WANSECURITY (also branded WANSIX) belongs to WANSecurity, Inc., a US managed-network and security service provider.
What it's used for
- Internet connectivity, transit, and managed security services for customers.
Notable
- An operating service-provider network with multiple upstreams and peers.
Interesting
- The low AS number was reassigned to WANSecurity, not held since the early internet.
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 2 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 203.190.230.52 |
| Kansas City Internet Exchange | Kansas City, United States | 206.51.7.4 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-03, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 25 prefixes · 18.18K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 28 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS1421- Registry name
- WANSEC
- Registrant
- WANSecurity, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- noc@wansecurity.com
- Registered
- 2009-07-31
- Last changed
- 2025-09-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- WANSEC
- Also known as
- WANSIX
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
ARIN::AS1421:AS-ORIGIN- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 6 facilities
- Website
- https://www.wansec.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
- 98% valid · 40 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 17 authorising AS1421
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 40 of 41 announcements
- Route objects
- 26 naming AS1421
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.
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: 451 networks and 1,853 prefixes, as published 2026-11-04. 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