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Autonomous system

AS14511 POLAR-COMMUNICATIONS - Polar Communications

Unclassified ARIN

IPv4 addresses 12.29K 4 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 1 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly US
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 2 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Polar Communications

United States · AI-generated

isp telecom infrastructure

Four blocks from two ranges, all four filed under one netname whose suffix counts to two.

What it's used for

  • A rural telephone cooperative's internet network. 12,288 addresses across four IPv4 prefixes plus one IPv6 prefix, 2610:188::/32, with two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

  • Every block carries the netname POLARCOMM-BLK-2, registered to Polar Communications with a Network Operations Center contact.
  • The blocks pair up: a /20 and a /21 from 66.231, and a /20 and a /21 from 216.196.
  • Twelve addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

  • One netname on four blocks from two unrelated ranges means the registry record was reused rather than rewritten. The suffix implies a first block that no longer carries the label, so the numbering survives a history the current records no longer show.
  • The pairing is the giveaway: each range holds a /20 and a /21, the shape of an initial request followed by a top-up that landed adjacent. Two ranges means it happened twice, years apart.
  • No sampled address answered a reverse lookup. For a cooperative selling residential service that is a choice, since generated reverse names are cheap; leaving them off keeps subscriber addresses from being enumerated by walking the zone.
  • The IPv6 allocation is a full /32 for a network of 12,288 IPv4 addresses. Every operator gets the same starting size, which flattens the difference between a co-op and a national carrier in one column of the routing table.

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

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.

Transit providers

2 upstream, 0 downstream and 3 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS26794Dakota Carrier Network288
AS36374Stellar Association, LLC12

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-01, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 4 prefixes · 12.29K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
USUnited States of America5

Registry

Allocation record

ARIN · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
ARIN
Handle
AS14511
Registry name
POLAR-COMMUNICATIONS
Registrant
Polar Communications
Abuse contact
hostmaster@polarcomm.com
Registered
1999-12-27
Last changed
2023-11-17
Allocation
assigned

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
100% valid · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
ROAs
5 authorising AS14511
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
Route objects
5 naming AS14511

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: 449 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-02. 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

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