Autonomous system
AS15042 URBN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Urban Communications
isp telecom hosting
The same company name listed twice in one field, differing only in punctuation.
What it's used for
- An internet provider's network. Four IPv4 blocks announced from the United States, no IPv6, and nine observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Two blocks carry a registrant field holding the holder's name twice over, once with a comma and a trailing period and once without either.
- A third block is registered to a different company altogether,
Online Spam Solutions LLC, under the netnameOSS-BLK-01. - The fourth carries the netname
2PIFI-NET01-24-124, which begins with a digit and ends in two separate numbers. - Two of twelve sampled addresses answered, both in the form
64-7-107-254.urbancom.net. - The routing history begins in 2003.
Interesting
- The duplicated registrant is worth more than it looks. Two records that a person would read as one company are two distinct entries to anything comparing strings, so the deduplication that should have collapsed them never ran, and the field preserves both attempts at spelling the name.
- Netnames beginning with a digit are unusual, and the trailing pair of numbers on that block looks like a size and a counter rather than anything about the network.
- Nine upstreams against this much address space is a well connected regional operator, and the reverse names that do answer are address-derived rather than customer-derived, so they identify the block and nothing about who is on it.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| United IX Chicago | Chicago, United States | 206.41.110.34 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 9.47K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS15042- Registry name
- URBN
- Registrant
- Urban Communications, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@urbancom.net
- Registered
- 2000-03-13
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 40% valid · 2 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS15042
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 8 naming AS15042
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 1,773 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