Autonomous system
AS16574 GTEK-COMMUNICATIONS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Gtek Computers
isp hosting business
Every reverse name carries an equipment code, a shortened town, a county and a state, and one is punctuated wrong.
What it's used for
- A regional provider's network. Twelve IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, eight thousand one hundred and ninety-two addresses, through eleven observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The blocks are all the company's, under three netname styles: a large carrier's four letters plus the company shortened and an address, the company plus a compass direction, and the shortened company alone.
- The carrier-style netnames carry an address that is not always the block's own. Three different blocks share one netname naming the address of only one of them.
- Only the blocks in the compass-direction family list contacts, and those list four: a technical contact named for the registry itself, an abuse contact, and an operations centre.
- Four of eighteen queried addresses answered. Each is the letters for an address, the address itself, a code naming a piece of equipment, a town name squeezed to six letters, a county name, and a two-letter state code.
- One of the four keeps dots between the first two parts of the address and hyphens after that, so the same template produced two different punctuations.
Interesting
- A reverse name that names the tower, the town and the county is a support tool. An engineer reading a ticket knows where to drive from the address alone.
- It is also a map of the company's coverage, published to anyone who queries it, which is the trade every descriptive naming scheme makes.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.223.119.97 |
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 12 prefixes · 8.19K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 12 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16574- Registry name
- GTEK-COMMUNICATIONS
- Registrant
- Gtek Computers LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@gtek.biz
- Registered
- 2011-02-08
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 32 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16574
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 32 of 32 announcements
- Route objects
- 41 naming AS16574
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