Autonomous system
AS14348 URI-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
University of Rhode Island
education research infrastructure
Three letters in the netname that mean one thing to a registry and something else entirely to everyone who works on the web.
What it's used for
- A state university's campus network. 65,536 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix,
131.128.0.0/16, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The block carries the netname
URI, registered toUniversity of Rhode Island. - The AS handle is
URI-AS. - Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- The routing archive has carried it since the archive began.
Interesting
URIis a collision with one of the web's most-used abbreviations. Netnames occupy their own namespace and nothing stops a university from taking three letters that already mean something else, because no software has to disambiguate them.- One neighbour for an entire university is unusual: most campuses of this size hold at least two so that a single provider failing does not take teaching offline. A state institution reaching the internet through one shared education network is the likeliest arrangement, and it shows up here as a single adjacency.
- The block is announced whole, in one piece, with the address range starting exactly on a boundary. Nothing inside has ever needed to be routed on its own.
- Nothing answers a reverse lookup on the addresses sampled, so the block gives up no building and no department.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS14325 | OSHEAN, Inc. | 75 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-19, 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 · 65.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14348- Registry name
- URI-AS
- Registrant
- University of Rhode Island
- Abuse contact
- mikek@uri.edu
- Registered
- 1999-12-01
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14348
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS14348
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: 442 networks and 1,778 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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