Autonomous system
AS16645 EPIQSYSTEMS
Hosting ARIN
Summary
EPIQ Systems, Inc
business enterprise hosting
Three blocks carry a netname with a letter missing from the company's own name.
What it's used for
- A services company's network. Four IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, four thousand six hundred and eight addresses, through eight observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle runs the company's two words together and spells both of them correctly.
- Three of the four blocks carry a netname of those same two words with a letter dropped from the second, followed by a commercial domain suffix.
- All four blocks are registered to the holder, so the misspelling is the company's own, entered three separate times.
- The fourth netname is not a name at all: it is the block's address and its size, written with hyphens.
- Twelve addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A misspelling repeated across three blocks is a template rather than three mistakes. The first was a typo; the next two were copied from the record before them, because copying is faster than typing.
- A domain suffix inside a netname treats the field as if it were a hostname. It is not, and nothing resolves it, so the suffix is decoration that survives because nothing checks.
- Eight upstreams for four thousand addresses is far more connectivity than the size demands, which puts the value in availability rather than in volume.
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
8 upstream, 0 downstream and 8 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
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 5 prefixes · 4.86K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16645- Registry name
- EPIQSYSTEMS
- Registrant
- EPIQ Systems, Inc
- Abuse contact
- networkdata@epiqglobal.com
- Registered
- 2000-05-30
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 11 with no ROA 1 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS16645
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 83% registered · 10 of 12 announcements
- Route objects
- 14 naming AS16645
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 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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