Autonomous system
AS16568 PROMEGA
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Promega Corporation
enterprise business infrastructure
One block, four upstreams, one name in every field, and no address that will admit to being there.
What it's used for
- A corporation's network. One IPv4 prefix announced from the United States, no IPv6, one thousand and twenty-four addresses, through four observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle, the netname and the holder are all the same word. The holder writes it in capitals and adds the corporate form; the other two are the word alone.
- The entire holding is one contiguous block, registered to the company itself with no other contact listed.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- Four observed neighbours carry a single block, which is more upstreams than prefixes.
- The country field in this record is missing the small word between the two halves of the country's name.
Interesting
- Four upstreams for one block is a company buying availability rather than capacity. The address space never grew; the number of ways to reach it did, which is the shape of a business that cannot be offline and does not need to be large.
- A record where the handle, the netname and the holder are one word is a company that registered everything at once and never reorganised. There is no acquisition residue here because there was no acquisition.
- Silence in reverse DNS on a thousand addresses behind four carriers means whatever is inside talks outward, not inward. The redundancy is for the staff's connection, not for anyone visiting.
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 2026-10-14, 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 · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16568- Registry name
- PROMEGA
- Registrant
- PROMEGA CORPORATION
- Abuse contact
- paul.svendsen@promega.com
- Registered
- 2007-12-18
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16568
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS16568
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