Autonomous system
AS16315 MULTITEL
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
MultiTEL
telecom isp business
The netname is eight capital letters that spell nothing and match nothing else in the record.
What it's used for
- A telecoms company's network. A single IPv4 prefix announced from the United States, no IPv6, two hundred and fifty-six addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The netname is eight consecutive capital letters with no hyphen, no country code, no date and no vowel pattern that suggests a word. Nothing else in the record explains them.
- The holder field is the company name twice: once in capitals, then a hyphen, then again in the mixed case the company itself uses, with its legal form appended.
- The AS handle is the capitalised half of that doubling, so the record's three labels are one meaningless string and two spellings of the same name.
- The company is the only registrant on the block. There is no abuse role and no technical contact.
- The whole network is one smallest-routable block behind one upstream.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Eight-letter netnames without structure are usually initials of something: a phrase, a project, or a list of the people who set it up. Whatever it stood for went unrecorded, and the string is now a unique identifier for a block and nothing more.
- A block with no abuse contact at all predates the requirement to have one. It is the clearest sign in a record that nobody has revisited it since it was created.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS19224 | Quantum Services Group, LLC. | 59 |
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 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16315- Registry name
- MULTITEL
- Registrant
- MultiTEL LLC
- Abuse contact
- noc@multitel.net
- Registered
- 2021-01-25
- Last changed
- 2021-01-25
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16315
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS16315
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 1,771 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