Autonomous system
AS16686 EDNS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
easyDNS Technologies, Inc.
hosting infrastructure business
Sixteen reverse names put the whole address, dots and all, inside the hostname.
What it's used for
- A hosting and naming provider's network. Six IPv4 prefixes and five IPv6 prefixes announced from Canada, three thousand five hundred and eighty-four addresses, through four observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle is four letters, and five of the six blocks carry it unchanged as their netname.
- Those five list a second contact that is the regional registry's own administrative role rather than anyone at the company.
- The sixth block belongs to a different company entirely, under a netname of an informal word for chatting and the word for a network.
- Sixteen of eighteen queried addresses answered. Fifteen share one template: the address in its normal dotted order, then the word host, then a domain.
- Two domains appear, one for the naming business and one for hosted machines. A single hand-named host breaks the pattern with a role, a counter and a three-letter site code.
Interesting
- Most generated reverse names replace the dots with hyphens, because dots separate labels and an address written with them becomes four labels deep. This scheme keeps them, so each name is a fully nested path ending in the domain.
- Listing the registry's own admin contact on five blocks means the paperwork points back at the body that issued the space rather than at anyone who runs it.
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 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 3.58K addresses IPv6 5 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 11 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16686- Registry name
- EDNS
- Registrant
- easyDNS Technologies, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- arin@easydns.com
- Registered
- 2007-03-20
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 94% valid · 16 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 18 authorising AS16686
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 17 of 17 announcements
- Route objects
- 20 naming AS16686
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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