Autonomous system
AS16593 FMCIN - First Merchants Corporation
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
First Merchants Corporation
finance business enterprise
A bank's second block is named for a consumer promotion and registered to a cable company.
What it's used for
- A bank holding company's network. Two IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, five hundred and twelve addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The two blocks come from two different carriers and share nothing.
- The first is registered to the bank itself, under a netname made of a carrier's initials, the word for a network, and the block's address written with hyphens.
- The second is registered to a cable company, under a netname that is a marketing word for getting started and a numeral five.
- The AS handle is three initials for the company and two more letters, with no separator.
- Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- Two observed neighbours carry one block each.
Interesting
- One block from a telephone carrier and one from a cable company is a bank buying its two paths from two industries, so that no single outage upstream takes both. The netnames record the suppliers more clearly than the bank records itself.
- A promotional product name sitting in a registry field is what happens when a carrier's sales catalogue and its address database share a form. The word describes the plan the customer bought, not the customer.
- Silence in reverse DNS on both blocks fits the holder. A bank has no reason to publish names for the addresses its branches leave from.
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 2026-11-07, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16593- Registry name
- FMCIN
- Registrant
- First Merchants Corporation
- Abuse contact
- noc@firstmerchants.com
- Registered
- 2006-09-12
- Last changed
- 2023-02-08
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 50% valid · 1 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS16593
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 50% registered · 1 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS16593
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 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-11-08. 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