Autonomous system
AS16406 AS-INTERMEDIA
Hosting ARIN Content
Summary
Intermedia.net
hosting isp business
Eight different addresses answered reverse DNS with the same name: the company's bare domain, no host part.
What it's used for
- A hosting provider's network. Six IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, eighteen thousand four hundred and thirty-two addresses, through nine observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Ten of eighteen queried addresses answered, and eight of those returned the company's domain by itself, with nothing in front of it. Different addresses in different blocks all resolve to the same string.
- The two exceptions are on a second company's domain: one names a network engineering group, the other a mail relay with a state code and a numeral.
- Every netname is the company name with its vowels removed, then a numeral. The numbering skips a value, and the lowest number covers three separate blocks.
- Two netnames insert a two-letter state code between the name and the numeral, and their numerals restart the sequence rather than continuing it.
- The AS handle puts the letters for an autonomous system in front of the company name, which is the reverse of the usual order.
Interesting
- A reverse name with no host part is a wildcard that answers every address in a zone with the apex. It satisfies software that insists on a name and tells an investigator only which company to write to.
- The second domain in those answers is where the real machines live. The company brand faces customers and the other domain faces the engineers, and the reverse zone shows both at once.
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
Recorded at 3 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.236.207 |
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.80.43 |
| Vancouver Internet Exchange | Vancouver, Canada | 206.41.104.47 |
Transit providers
6 upstream, 1 downstream and 7 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 18.43K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16406- Registry name
- AS-INTERMEDIA
- Registrant
- Intermedia.net, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@intermedia.net
- Registered
- 2000-04-26
- Last changed
- 2026-03-05
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Intermedia.net
- Network type
- Content
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-IMED- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Website
- http://intermedia.net/
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, 45 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16406
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 45 of 45 announcements
- Route objects
- 21 naming AS16406
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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