Autonomous system
AS16698 NP-TECH
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
NP Tech
isp telecom hosting
The reverse names hang off a domain whose own name means reverse DNS.
What it's used for
- A provider's network. Eight IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, eleven thousand two hundred and sixty-four addresses, through four observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Three blocks are registered to a large carrier under its single generic netname.
- Three of the holder's own share one opaque netname: eight characters of letters and digits that decode to nothing visible in the rest of the record.
- The remaining two spell out the word for a network, the block's address, the four letters for classless routing, and the block's size.
- Six of eighteen queried addresses answered, all on a domain that begins with the letters for a reverse record and ends in a brand shared with that opaque netname.
- Each name carries a leading word for an address, the address in dotted order, then a point of presence, sometimes a piece of equipment, a service type and the word for a subscriber.
Interesting
- Two different leading words for the same thing, one an abbreviation and one a longer form, means two generators ran against neighbouring blocks and nobody reconciled them.
- One name labels a cable termination device with the word for a dialled connection. The template outlived the technology, and the field that describes the service now describes the previous one.
- A domain named for the reverse system it serves is honest and slightly circular.
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 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 9 prefixes · 11.26K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16698- Registry name
- NP-TECH
- Registrant
- NP Tech
- Abuse contact
- admin@centraloffice-services.com
- Registered
- 2000-05-18
- Last changed
- 2025-02-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- NP-TECH
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 58% valid · 14 valid, 10 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 14 authorising AS16698
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 24 of 24 announcements
- Route objects
- 31 naming AS16698
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: 447 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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