Autonomous system
AS14500 GALAXYBROADBAND-01
Residential ARIN
Summary
Galaxy Broadband Communications Inc.
isp telecom infrastructure
Every reverse name writes the address backwards, because the zone generator never turned it back around.
What it's used for
- A broadband provider's network. 10,240 addresses across eight IPv4 prefixes plus two IPv6 prefixes, with 15 observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Blocks carry
GBC-1throughGBC-4, registered toGalaxy Broadband Communications Inc.withNOC,AbuseandADMINcontacts. - Two blocks carry
GALAXYFIBRE-BROOKS-1andGALAXYFIBRE-BROOKS-HSI1, registered toGalaxyFibre. - All eighteen sampled addresses returned a name, every one with the address reversed:
68.70.148.0answers0.148.70.68.ip.galaxybroadband.ca.
Interesting
- Reverse DNS queries are made against the address written backwards, so a lookup for
68.70.148.0asks about0.148.70.68and its arpa suffix. Here the generator took that reversed form and pasted it straight into the answer, so every hostname on the network reads right to left. It works perfectly and looks wrong to everyone who sees it. - The two
GalaxyFibreblocks name a town and, on one of them, the service sold there. A netname that carries a place and a product is a record written by someone who expected to read it again. - Fifteen neighbours on 10,240 addresses is a lot of adjacency for a small estate, and it is what a provider ends up with after connecting to exchanges in several places.
- Every sampled address answered, first and last included, which means the zone is generated whole with no exceptions carved out for the addresses that cannot be assigned.
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
Recorded at 3 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.80.187 |
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.34.156 |
| YYCIX Calgary Internet Exchange | Calgary, Canada | 206.126.225.188 |
Transit providers
11 upstream, 0 downstream and 16 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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 8 prefixes · 10.24K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 10 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14500- Registry name
- GALAXYBROADBAND-01
- Registrant
- Galaxy Broadband Communications Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@galaxybroadband.ca
- Registered
- 2010-05-06
- Last changed
- 2018-03-06
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 15 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 15 authorising AS14500
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 15 of 15 announcements
- Route objects
- 18 naming AS14500
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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 1,772 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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