Autonomous system
AS16212 LORAL-SKYNET-ASN
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Telesat International
telecom isp business
Three brands across eleven blocks, and the handle still names the one that came first.
What it's used for
- A satellite communications operator's network. Eleven IPv4 prefixes announced from the United Kingdom, no IPv6, six thousand nine hundred and twelve addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The AS handle is a two-word brand and the letters for an autonomous system. The holder field names a different company, and neither word of the handle appears in it.
- Three blocks share a netname built from a country code, a third brand, and a full date, and all three carry the same date.
- Four consecutive blocks share a netname of three letters, the word for a network, and a numeral. No company is registered on any of them, only a contact role and an abuse role.
- Two more use the handle's brand plus the word for infrastructure. One of those lists nothing but an abuse role.
- One block is registered to a differently named company whose suffix is the one used for incorporation outside the country the blocks are announced from.
- Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Eleven blocks behind a single observed neighbour is a network that reaches the internet through one door. For a satellite operator that is the expected shape: the interesting links are the ones that do not run over fibre.
- Every brand in this record survives only in strings. The routing works regardless, which is why nobody has ever had a reason to correct them.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS8447 | A1 Telekom Austria AG | 900 |
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 11 prefixes · 6.91K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 11 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS16212- Registry name
- LORAL-SKYNET-ASN
- Registrant
- MNT-LORAL-SKYNET
- Abuse contact
- cscsupport@telesat.com
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2025-01-30
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 15 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16212
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 93% registered · 14 of 15 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS16212
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 1,772 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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