Autonomous system
AS16556 TOTALCHOICE-HOSTING
Hosting ARIN
Summary
TotalChoice Hosting
hosting business infrastructure
One address answers with its own digits backwards and a contraction meaning not provisioned.
What it's used for
- A hosting company's network. Three IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, four thousand and ninety-six addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- All three blocks are the company's own, under netnames of its initials, the protocol version, and a counter running one, two, three.
- The counter numbers the blocks, not the version: three acquisitions in order, each recorded as the next.
- Three of nine queried addresses answered, all on a domain that names the company's machines rather than the company.
- Two are gateways with numbers, one per block. The third is the address written backwards, a hyphen, and a contraction meaning not provisioned.
- The country field is missing the small word between the two halves of the country's name.
Interesting
- A reverse zone that says not provisioned is generated from the provisioning system. The answer is accurate on the day it is asked and stays only until somebody assigns the address, which is a promise no hand-written zone makes.
- The gateway names are the useful part: they mark which addresses are routers. That is exactly what an operator wants to know and exactly what a scanner wants to know.
- Four thousand addresses behind one upstream is a hosting company that has never bought a second carrier, through three separate rounds of buying more address space.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS12129 | 123.Net, Inc. | 176 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, 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 · 4.10K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16556- Registry name
- TOTALCHOICE-HOSTING
- Registrant
- TotalChoice Hosting, LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@totalchoicehosting.com
- Registered
- 2007-03-20
- Last changed
- 2023-02-26
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16556
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS16556
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: 442 networks and 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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