Autonomous system
AS16255 IRIDIUM-AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
IridiumProvider
hosting isp business
The netname is a registry-generated organisation handle, and the only host published is the mail server.
What it's used for
- A small provider's network. A single IPv4 prefix announced from Estonia, no IPv6, five hundred and twelve addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The netname is not a name. It is three letters for organisation, two initials of the company, a serial number and the registry's own name, which is the string the database generates when nobody supplies one.
- The AS handle does supply one: an element name and the letters for an autonomous system, which is the only readable label in the record.
- The holder field adds the company suffix used for a private limited company in its country, so the legal form is the one detail the handle drops.
- The block is registered to the company and to an abuse role whose label spells out that it is a role object, in case a reader mistook it for a person.
- One of three queried addresses answered, and it is the mail server, on a domain using the continental suffix rather than the country's own.
Interesting
- Publishing one name and making it the mail server is the minimum viable reverse DNS. Mail is the service that breaks without it; everything else works fine in silence.
- A company registered in one country and reachable under a continental domain is buying an identity larger than its incorporation. The addresses stay where the paperwork is, and the branding does not.
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 2026-10-20, 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 · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| EE | Estonia | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS16255- Registry name
- IRIDIUM-AS
- Registrant
- IRIDIUM-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abolotnik@iridiumprovider.com
- Registered
- 2015-08-20
- Last changed
- 2026-05-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16255
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS16255
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-21. 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