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Autonomous system

AS14901 TAOSNET-NEWMEX - TAOS NET LLC

Hosting ARIN

IPv4 addresses 4.35K 2 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 1 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly US
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 2 1 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Taos Net LLC

United States · AI-generated

isp telecom business

One of its blocks carries a netname built from the address written backwards.

What it's used for

  • A mountain-town ISP's network. 4,352 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes plus 2602:ff85:2f::/48 of IPv6, with three observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

  • 209.188.112.0/20 carries the netname TAOSNET-001, registered to TAOS NET LLC with a contact entry reading TECH.
  • 24.120.232.0/24 carries BRI-232-120-24-22, registered to BannerView.com.
  • Three of six sampled addresses returned names of the form 209-188-116-0.taosnet.com.
  • The AS first appeared in routing on 2005-05-12.

Interesting

  • That second netname lists the block's first three parts in reverse order and then adds another number. Reversed addresses appear all over reverse DNS, where the protocol requires them, and almost never in a netname, where nothing does. Somebody copied a string out of the wrong tool.
  • The block is registered to a web design business rather than the ISP announcing it, which is what happens when a small provider takes over a customer that once ran its own network and keeps the registration where it is.
  • The AS handle spells out a state that the company name does not, so the routing record disambiguates a town name that exists in more than one place.
  • Three neighbours for a provider announcing two prefixes, in terrain where a single fibre cut can isolate a valley, is money spent where it matters.

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, 1 downstream and 5 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS6461Zayo Bandwidth116
AS33152Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, Inc42

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-03, 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 2 prefixes · 4.35K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
USUnited States of America3

Registry

Allocation record

ARIN · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
ARIN
Handle
AS14901
Registry name
TAOSNET-NEWMEX
Registrant
TAOS NET LLC
Abuse contact
TECH-ARIN@taosnet.com
Registered
2000-02-23
Last changed
2012-02-24
Allocation
assigned

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
67% valid · 2 valid, 1 with no ROA
ROAs
2 authorising AS14901
ASPA
3 declared providers
IRR
33% registered · 1 of 3 announcements
Route objects
6 naming AS14901

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: 451 networks and 1,853 prefixes, as published 2026-11-04. 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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