Autonomous system
AS16402 HKUSA - Human Kinetics, Inc.
Unclassified ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Human Kinetics
business media enterprise
The netname carries the block's address; the reverse names carry it again, behind the word for a customer.
What it's used for
- A publisher'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 the company's two words run together without a space, then the four numbers of the block's starting address separated by hyphens.
- All three queried addresses answered. Each name is the word for a customer, then those same four numbers hyphenated, on a provider's domain.
- That provider appears nowhere in the registry record. The only trace of who carries this network is in the reverse names.
- The AS handle is the company's initials and a three-letter country abbreviation, which is the only place in the record the country is stated.
- The registrant drops the legal form the holder field spells out.
- The prefix is the smallest routable size and it is the whole holding.
Interesting
- Two independent systems encoded the same address into a name here, once in the registry and once in DNS, and neither knew about the other. That redundancy is why an address can usually be traced even when one of the two records is stale.
- A word meaning customer in every reverse name is the provider labelling its own inventory. It tells you what the relationship is without naming either party.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS5742 | Fidium | 59 |
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 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16402- Registry name
- HKUSA
- Registrant
- Human Kinetics, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- toddk@hkusa.com
- Registered
- 2009-05-06
- Last changed
- 2022-03-23
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Universal Telecom, Inc.
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- Website
- http://www.uspops.com
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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS16402
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS16402
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: 449 networks and 1,846 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