Autonomous system
AS15335 KAPLAN-TELEPHONE - KAPLAN TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Kaplan Telephone Company
telecom isp business infrastructure
Nine routes that could be two, and one netname for all of them.
What it's used for
- A rural telephone company's network. Nine IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, and two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The nine announcements fall into two families. Five of them tile one unbroken range of sixteen consecutive blocks; the other four tile a range of eight.
- Each family is aligned, so a single announcement could carry each one, and nine entries in every routing table on the internet could be two.
- All nine blocks share the same netname, the company name and the word network, so the registry does not distinguish them either.
- Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- Six thousand addresses in total, behind two upstreams.
Interesting
- This is the sharpest example of unaggregated announcement in this range. Nothing about the routing suggests the pieces are treated differently: same registrant, same netname, same upstreams.
- It usually happens because each piece was turned up separately as the network grew, and nobody went back to combine them once the range was complete.
- The cost is small for any one network and large in aggregate. Tables carry hundreds of thousands of routes, and a meaningful share of them are runs like this one that nobody ever tidied.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-12, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 9 prefixes · 6.14K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS15335- Registry name
- KAPLAN-TELEPHONE
- Registrant
- KAPLAN TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC.
- Abuse contact
- gviator@ktcpace.com
- Registered
- 2000-04-19
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 8 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS15335
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 28 naming AS15335
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: 455 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-11-13. 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