Autonomous system
AS14297 ACI-WORLDWIDE
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
ACI Worldwide, Inc.
finance business enterprise
The netnames are the address blocks written out as words, and the company's own name is spelled three different ways across them.
What it's used for
- A payments software company's network. 31,232 addresses across 37 IPv4 prefixes, with six observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Most blocks carry netnames that are just their parent range with dashes:
NET-139-131-0-0,NET-138-229-0-0,NET-65-198-80-0-1,NET-65-222-196-0-1. - The registrant is recorded as
ACI Worldwide, Inc.on some blocks,ACI Worldwideon another andACI WORLDWIDEon a third. - Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- Thirty-seven announcements are carried by six neighbours, most of them
/22s and/23s cut out of139.131.
Interesting
- A netname that restates the block is a registry default rather than a choice. It carries no information the record does not already hold, which is what happens when space is registered in bulk and nobody is asked to name it.
- Three spellings of one company across four records is the ordinary cost of filing paperwork over decades. Anything trying to group networks by organisation name has to normalise case and punctuation before it can see that these are the same company.
- A payments network that publishes no reverse names and no IPv6 gives an outsider nothing to read. The traffic is bank-to-processor over arranged links, not public browsing, so there is nothing to gain from being discoverable.
- Cutting one range into dozens of small announcements suggests processing sites turned up individually, each with its own upstream arrangement.
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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.
Transit providers
6 upstream, 0 downstream and 6 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 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 37 prefixes · 31.23K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 37 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14297- Registry name
- ACI-WORLDWIDE
- Registrant
- ACI Worldwide, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- globalnetworking@aciworldwide.com
- Registered
- 1999-11-22
- Last changed
- 2012-08-03
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 95% valid · 42 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 57 authorising AS14297
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 44 of 44 announcements
- Route objects
- 88 naming AS14297
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