Autonomous system
AS16728 MATTEL
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Mattel, Inc.
enterprise business
One block is registered to a privacy placeholder, under a netname that names the company anyway.
What it's used for
- A toy manufacturer's network. Five IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no sixth-version space, two thousand and forty-eight addresses, through seven observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle is the company name alone, with nothing added for the number or the protocol.
- Two blocks are named for the company, the two letters for a data centre, and a three-letter site code, one code per block.
- One of those two is registered not to the company but to a generic privacy placeholder, while its netname still spells the company out in full.
- The other three share a single netname: a short form of the company name, the three letters for a network, and a zero-padded counter.
- Their registrant carries a department after a semicolon rather than a person.
- Fifteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A privacy placeholder hides the registrant field and nothing else. The netname beside it, the four sibling blocks in the same parent range, and the handle on the autonomous system all say the same name. Redaction only works if every field is redacted together.
- Two site codes on two data centre blocks are a pair of buildings, and the counter on the other three never advances past one. The estate was named once and then simply grew.
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
7 upstream, 0 downstream and 7 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 2026-10-18, 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 · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16728- Registry name
- MATTEL
- Registrant
- Mattel, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- benjamin.spray@mattel.com
- Registered
- 2000-06-02
- Last changed
- 2013-11-12
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16728
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 67% registered · 4 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS16728
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 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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