Autonomous system
AS14438 USA-CHOICE-OIL-CITY
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
USA Choice Internet Services
isp telecom business
The reverse zone is a map: every hostname names the town the address serves.
What it's used for
- A regional ISP's network. 2,560 addresses across six IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Four blocks carry the netname
USACHOICE-BLK1and two carryUSACHOICE-BLK2. - Fifteen of eighteen sampled addresses answered, in the form
h190.221.oc.usachoice.net. - Three town labels appear in those names, one abbreviated to two letters and two spelled out.
- The AS handle names one of those towns directly.
Interesting
- Each hostname is four parts: a marker for host, the third part of the address, the town, and the domain. That third number is the only thing distinguishing one block's names from another's, so the zone is generated per town from the address plan.
- Naming by town rather than by equipment is what a rural ISP does when its network is a set of separate small systems joined by leased lines. Support staff need to know which town is down, not which router.
- One town is abbreviated to two letters and the others are not, which dates them: the short one was configured when short names were the convention, and the others were added after it stopped mattering.
- Two netnames for six blocks split the estate into the space obtained first and the space obtained later, in two separate parts of the address range. The gaps within each are customers who left.
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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 2.56K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14438- Registry name
- USA-CHOICE-OIL-CITY
- Registrant
- U S A CHOICE INTERNET SERVICES CO.
- Abuse contact
- info@usachoice.net
- Registered
- 1999-12-13
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 10 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14438
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 80% registered · 8 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 8 naming AS14438
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 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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