Autonomous system
AS14746 NOCTEL
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
NocTel Communications
telecom isp business
Two hostnames in one block, under two domains a single letter apart.
What it's used for
- A voice provider's network. 2,304 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes plus two IPv6 blocks,
2620:11f:9002::/48and2620:11f:9006::/48, with seven observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
192.69.24.0/21carries the netnameNOCTEL;205.151.255.0/24carriesNOCTEL-FIBER-255and is registered to a separately named fibre entity.- Two of six sampled addresses answered, both in the smaller block. One is
vrn-mon.noctefiber.com; the other usesnoctelfiber.com, the same domain with the letter L restored. - The AS first appeared in routing on
2000-08-18.
Interesting
- A domain missing one letter from its own company name is a typo that outlived the moment it was made, because reverse DNS is checked by almost nobody and breaks nothing when wrong. Both names resolve, so both domains exist, and somebody registered the misspelling to make it work.
- That is also the risk: a near-miss domain in production is exactly what an outsider would register to catch mail or traffic aimed at the real one. Here the operator holds it, which is the safe outcome.
- The second netname ends in the block's own third number, so the record was named from the address rather than from anything about its purpose.
- Two IPv6 blocks with a gap between them means four were reserved and two are in use.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Northwest Access Exchange | Portland, United States | 198.32.195.14 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, 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 · 2.30K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14746- Registry name
- NOCTEL
- Registrant
- NocTel Communications, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- noc@noctel.com
- Registered
- 2012-04-06
- Last changed
- 2012-04-06
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 11 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS14746
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 11 of 11 announcements
- Route objects
- 35 naming AS14746
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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