Autonomous system
AS16228 AS-VERKKOPALVELUT
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Pohjoisen Keski-Suomen Verkkopalvelut
isp telecom business
The handle drops the geography and keeps only the last word: network services.
What it's used for
- A regional network services company. A single IPv4 prefix announced from Finland, no IPv6, four thousand and ninety-six addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The holder field is four words, three of them describing where the company operates and one saying what it does, followed by the company suffix.
- The AS handle keeps the letters for an autonomous system and the last word alone, so the routing label is a generic noun that could belong to any provider anywhere.
- The netname takes the opposite approach: a country code, the initials of all four words, and a full date. Nothing in it is readable, but it is unique.
- The block is registered to the company and to a hostmaster role using the same initials.
- One of three queried addresses answered. The name is the address with hyphens, then a three-letter label, then two letters for the address family, then the domain of the last word of the company name.
Interesting
- Three letters in the middle of a hostname, sitting between the address and the domain, are usually a site: the town or exchange the range is served from. Nothing else in the record explains it, and the operator never needed it to.
- Two labels appear where one would do, one naming the place and one naming the protocol, which is a scheme built to survive a second address family arriving later.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS47605 | FNE-Finland Oy | 60 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 4.10K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| FI | Finland | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16228- Registry name
- AS-VERKKOPALVELUT
- Registrant
- Pohjoisen Keski-Suomen Verkkopalvelut Oy
- Abuse contact
- pksvp.abuse@verkkopalvelut.com
- Registered
- 2002-02-06
- Last changed
- 2021-06-18
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS16228
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS16228
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: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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