Autonomous system
AS14869 USTCONLINE
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Union Springs Telephone Company
telecom isp business
The registry credits one company; the hostnames credit another.
What it's used for
- A rural telephone company's network. 2,048 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
104.244.144.0/21carries the netnameUSTC, matching the telephone company, but the registrant isROPIR INDUSTRIES.- One of three sampled addresses answered, with
host-104-244-149-254.ustconline.net. - The AS first appeared in routing on
2000-08-18.
Interesting
- Netname and registrant disagreeing is the fingerprint of a company that changed hands or restructured and updated exactly one field. The netname is the abbreviation of the operating telephone company, the registrant is a holding entity, and the reverse DNS is the customer-facing brand. Three different answers to who owns these addresses, all correct.
- Working out who to contact about an address means checking all three, which is why abuse handling is harder than it sounds and why registries ask for role contacts rather than company names.
- The block is from recent space rather than the range this company would have been given in the era its AS number implies, so the original allocation is gone and this one was bought or transferred.
- A single upstream and a single block is a small operator that has kept its own routing rather than disappearing into a larger network, which for a rural telephone company is a choice about independence.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS13825 | Troy Cablevision, Inc. | 59 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-23, 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
AS14869- Registry name
- USTCONLINE
- Registrant
- Union Springs Telephone Company
- Abuse contact
- Lynn.Rotton@ustctelecom.com
- Registered
- 2014-02-03
- Last changed
- 2014-02-03
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14869
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS14869
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: 442 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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