Autonomous system
AS14694 BVIX-SERVICES
Hosting ARIN Network Services
Summary
Telecommunications Regulatory Commission
government infrastructure telecom
The telecommunications regulator runs the territory's internet exchange itself.
What it's used for
- A national regulator's network, supporting an internet exchange. 512 IPv4 addresses across two prefixes, two IPv6 prefixes, and two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle names an exchange rather than the regulator that holds the number.
23.136.96.0/24carries the netnameTRC-V4, stating the regulator's initials and the protocol.206.81.110.0/24carriesTRC-VIXPM4, joining the same initials to an exchange abbreviation.- The IPv6 announcements are
2602:fa5c::/40and2620:4e:2000::/48, from two different ranges.
Interesting
- Regulators normally set the rules and leave the equipment to others. On a small island territory there may be nobody else willing to fund an exchange, so the body that licenses the operators also runs the place where they interconnect. It works, and it puts the referee on the pitch.
- An exchange is the single most valuable piece of infrastructure a small territory can build. Without one, traffic between two local operators leaves the island, crosses an ocean and comes back, adding delay to every local connection.
- Naming the protocol in one netname and not the other is the same half-finished convention seen throughout this range. Here the counterpart records were never filed, though IPv6 is announced.
- Two IPv6 ranges from different blocks, one much larger than the other, is what happens when a network obtains space once for itself and once for the exchange it operates.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| British Virgin Islands Internet Exchange Point | Road Town, British Virgin Islands | 206.71.15.10 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| VG | Virgin Islands (British) | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14694- Registry name
- BVIX-SERVICES
- Registrant
- Telecommunications Regulatory Commission
- Abuse contact
- eparsons@trc.vg
- Registered
- 2018-08-06
- Last changed
- 2022-09-27
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- BVIX Services
- Also known as
- BVIX
- Network type
- Network Services
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Website
- http://www.bvix.vg
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS14694
- ASPA
- 2 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS14694
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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