Autonomous system
AS14498 DYNETICS - Dynetics, Inc.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Dynetics
research enterprise business
One block, one name, nothing else on the record at all.
What it's used for
- An engineering firm's network. 2,048 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
204.154.192.0/21carries the netnameDYNETICS, matching the company exactly, with the company as registrant.- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- The AS first appeared in routing on
2000-08-18.
Interesting
- This is the minimum viable public footprint: one block acquired early, kept whole, announced as one route, named after the company and nothing more. Nothing here has changed hands, been split, been renamed or been outgrown, which after a quarter of a century is unusual on its own.
- Records this bare are common among firms whose work happens on networks that never touch the public internet. The interesting systems sit behind private circuits, and what is announced is the mail and web presence that has to be reachable.
- Two neighbours is the standard minimum for an organisation that cannot lose connectivity but has no reason to engineer traffic beyond that.
- A block of this size from this era, still intact and still announced by its original holder, is worth a great deal now. Plenty of firms in the same position have sold theirs and moved behind a provider's addresses.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS12083 | WideOpenWest Finance LLC | 61 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-11, 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 · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14498- Registry name
- DYNETICS
- Registrant
- Dynetics, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- network.operations@dynetics.com
- Registered
- 2006-11-02
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14498
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS14498
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: 453 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-11. 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