Autonomous system
AS14443 BFS-49-14443
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Broadridge Financial Solutions
finance business infrastructure
Seven prefixes that halve the range at every step, and an AS handle containing its own AS number.
What it's used for
- A financial services processor's network. 65,536 addresses across seven IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The seven are
165.79.0.0/17,165.79.128.0/18,165.79.192.0/19,165.79.224.0/20,165.79.240.0/21,165.79.248.0/22and165.79.252.0/22. - Each takes half of what the previous one left, until the last two split the remainder evenly.
- All seven carry the netname
BROADRIDGE-C, registered toBroadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. - The AS handle is
BFS-49-14443. - Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- This is the textbook halving chain, and almost nothing in the corpus announces it so exactly. Real networks split where a department or a site needed its own routing, which produces a ragged set of pieces. A chain this regular is a range subdivided on paper before anything was plugged in.
- The handle ends in the AS number itself. Handles are chosen by the applicant, and whoever filed this one wanted the record to be self-describing rather than memorable.
- Two neighbours for a firm that processes trades and shareholder records. The volume of the business has almost no relationship to the size of its public routing footprint.
- Nothing answers a reverse lookup on any of the seven blocks.
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 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 65.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14443- Registry name
- BFS-49-14443
- Registrant
- Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- EnterpriseNetworkServices@broadridge.com
- Registered
- 1999-12-14
- Last changed
- 2017-09-19
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14443
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS14443
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 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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