Autonomous system
AS16739 MIDCO-NET-INV
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Midcontinent Communications
isp telecom business
One netname's address does not match the block it labels, off by a hundred in one position.
What it's used for
- A cable operator's network. Seven IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no sixth-version space, six thousand nine hundred and twelve addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The AS handle joins the operator's short brand, the word for a network, and three letters taken from an acquired provider's name.
- The seven blocks carry three different registrants: the holder, a fixed wireless arm under the short brand, and that acquired provider under its own name.
- Four netnames are the block's own address and size written with hyphens instead of dots and slash. One of those four adds a suffix naming the protocol that hands out addresses automatically.
- On that block, the netname's address differs from the real one in the second position, reading a hundred higher than the block it labels.
- All eighteen queried addresses answered, every one the address hyphenated, a word meaning fixed, and the operator's short brand domain.
Interesting
- A netname derived from an address is a template, and templates are typed by hand once. A single wrong digit is invisible to every system, because nothing validates a netname against the block it names.
- One reverse domain across three registrants is the tell that the acquisitions have been absorbed operationally even though the registry still lists them separately.
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
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS11232 | Midcontinent Communications | 455 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 6.91K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16739- Registry name
- MIDCO-NET-INV
- Registrant
- Midcontinent Communications
- Abuse contact
- abuse@midco.com
- Registered
- 2005-07-12
- Last changed
- 2019-05-29
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 7 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS16739
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS16739
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: 436 networks and 1,771 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