Autonomous system
AS16724 WOW-DATACENTER-NET
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
WideOpenWest Finance LLC
isp hosting telecom
One reverse name ends in the lookup zone itself, so it points at nothing.
What it's used for
- A cable operator's network. Forty-two IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 prefix announced from the United States, twenty thousand four hundred and eighty addresses, through sixteen observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle joins the operator's three-letter brand, the words for a data centre, and the word for a network.
- Most blocks are registered to the holder but carry a different company's three initials with a numbered network, counting from one to five.
- One block belongs to a company whose name is that of a service, under a netname of that name and part of an address. Another is registered to a name that is itself a domain in capitals, under a netname joining four things including a long-gone carrier's brand.
- Three of eighteen queried addresses answered, on three unrelated domains: one for hosting with a three-letter airport code, one a newsletter service, and one that is not a domain at all.
- That third name is the address reversed, with the reverse lookup zone appended in place of a domain.
Interesting
- A name ending in the lookup zone is a template whose domain field came out empty. It answers, it looks ordinary in a log, and it resolves to nothing.
- Five numbered networks under initials that are not the holder's is an acquired provider's naming carried forward whole. The registrant changed; the labels never did.
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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 42 prefixes · 20.48K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 43 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16724- Registry name
- WOW-DATACENTER-NET
- Registrant
- WideOpenWest Finance LLC
- Abuse contact
- cloudabuse@wideopenwest.com
- Registered
- 2000-06-01
- Last changed
- 2018-08-27
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 84% valid · 36 valid, 7 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 38 authorising AS16724
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 43 of 43 announcements
- Route objects
- 57 naming AS16724
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 1,773 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