Autonomous system
AS16543 GATEWEST-AS - Gate West Communications Inc.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Gate West Communications
isp telecom business
Nine addresses, nine answers, three domains, and two of the answers are customer web addresses.
What it's used for
- A provider's network. Three IPv4 prefixes announced from Canada, no IPv6, one thousand and twenty-four addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The three blocks carry three registrants: a carrier, a two-part name joining an unrelated company to this one with a slash, and the provider itself.
- The carrier's netname is its brand and a numeral three. The provider's own is the word for a network and its brand.
- The middle block's netname is a single letter, then the address as one run of digits with the dots removed and each part zero-padded, then six more digits that read like a date.
- All nine queried addresses answered. Six give the address with hyphens on one domain, three of those adding a label naming an older access technology.
- The other three sit on a different block: one is the last part of the address alone on the provider's domain, two are business web addresses with the conventional prefix.
Interesting
- Reverse names that are customer web addresses mean the provider hosts those sites and pointed the reverse zone at the forward one's names. It is tidy, and it publishes part of the customer list.
- A label naming an old access technology is not evidence the technology still runs. It is evidence that nobody edits a zone file that works.
- Three registrants for three blocks, one upstream carrying all of them: the paperwork is more fragmented than the routing.
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 2026-11-06, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16543- Registry name
- GATEWEST-AS
- Registrant
- Gate West Communications Inc.
- Abuse contact
- rdo@gatewest.net
- Registered
- 2000-05-11
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16543
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS16543
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: 454 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-06. 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