Autonomous system
AS14224 TAMPNET-
Unclassified ARIN NSP
Summary
Tampnet
telecom isp infrastructure
A netname that leads with the protocol and the word allocation before naming the company.
What it's used for
- The national arm of an offshore and remote connectivity operator. 1,024 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The whole footprint is
199.16.208.0/22, carrying the netnameV4-ALLOC-TAMPNET-US. - That netname puts the protocol first, then the kind of record, then the company, then the country.
- The AS handle is truncated to
TAMPNET-, cut by a length limit mid-name. - Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Reading that netname left to right is reading somebody's filing system. Protocol, record type, organisation, country: it sorts sensibly in a list, which is what the person filing it cared about, and it tells a stranger less about the network than the company name alone would.
- Naming the protocol in a record created for address space implies the same operator holds, or expects to hold, the other kind. Nothing of the sort is announced here, so either it lives under a different number or it is still a plan.
- Offshore connectivity means radio and fibre reaching platforms, vessels and remote installations, where the customer is a location rather than a building. A thousand addresses is the shore end of something whose interesting half is at sea.
- First seen in routing on
2007-02-09, well after the numbers around it, so this arm was set up long after the number was issued.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.53.202.16 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14224- Registry name
- TAMPNET-US
- Registrant
- Tampnet Inc
- Abuse contact
- abuse@tampnet.com
- Registered
- 2010-03-05
- Last changed
- 2019-02-05
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Tampnet US
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-US-TAMPNET- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Website
- http://www.tampnet.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
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS14224
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS14224
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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