Autonomous system
AS16689 TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V.
media business telecom
Four blocks share one netname, and it names a range far wider than any of them.
What it's used for
- A broadcaster's network. Four IPv4 prefixes announced from Mexico, no IPv6, one thousand and twenty-four addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle is the full legal name: two words, then two abbreviated corporate forms with full stops and a connecting word between them.
- All four blocks are registered to that same name, and all four carry an identical netname.
- That netname is not a name at all. It is a pair of addresses with a hyphen between them, marking the start and end of a range.
- The range covers several times more addresses than the four announced blocks together, so the label describes the parent allocation rather than anything announced.
- Twelve addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Address ranges in place of netnames are a regional registry convention rather than an oversight. They restate the allocation and add nothing a reader could not already see.
- Four small blocks carved from one wider range, with the gaps between them unannounced, means most of the allocation is either unused or routed somewhere this record does not reach.
- A broadcaster with a thousand addresses and nothing answering keeps its public presence somewhere else. What is here is the corporate side, named entirely on the inside.
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 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| MX | Mexico | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16689- Registry name
- 16689
- Registrant
- TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V.
- Abuse contact
- admindomains@aztecaservicios.com
- Registered
- 2000-05-18
- Last changed
- 2011-06-22
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16689
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 75% registered · 3 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS16689
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: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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