Autonomous system
AS16089 IPUBLICATIONS iPublications Holding B.V.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
iPublications Holding
hosting business media
Three small blocks collected sixteen years apart, and one IPv6 allocation that dwarfs all of them.
What it's used for
- A publishing software company's network. Three IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 block announced from the Netherlands, seven hundred and sixty-eight addresses, through a single observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- All three netnames follow one template: country code, brand, date. The dates run from the late two thousands to the middle of the following decade and then to the current one, roughly one block every six years.
- Each IPv4 block is the same size, so the company has taken the smallest routable allocation three times rather than asking for a larger one.
- The IPv6 allocation holds more addresses than every IPv4 block here multiplied together, which is the ordinary shape of a modern allocation rather than anything unusual about this network.
- Every block lists the same holder and a role contact for abuse, with no individual named anywhere.
- Nine addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A single upstream and a single brand across three registrations is a company that has never needed to route around anything. The address space grew when the business did, in the smallest increments the registry sells.
- Software companies that publish on behalf of clients end up running networks because their customers' content has to be served from somewhere, and the addresses outlive the products they were bought for.
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 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS35332 | DataWeb B.V. | 217 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-01, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NL | Netherlands | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16089- Registry name
- IPUBLICATIONS
- Registrant
- lir-nl-ipublications-1-MNT
- Abuse contact
- report@ipublications.net
- Registered
- 2015-08-25
- Last changed
- 2023-10-13
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- iPublications
- Also known as
- iPublications
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Outbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS16089:AS-IPUBLICATIONS- Website
- https://ipublications.net
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS16089
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS16089
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: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-02. 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