Autonomous system
AS16763 TIDEWORKS - Tideworks Technology
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Tideworks Technology
business hosting enterprise
The netname ends in a ten-digit number, and the registrant begins with a site identifier.
What it's used for
- A software company's network. One IPv4 prefix announced from the United States, no sixth-version space, two hundred and fifty-six addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle is the holder's first word alone, one run-together word.
- The single block belongs to a carrier, and its netname stacks five things: a five-letter carrier short form, the block's address, its size, and a ten-digit number.
- That ten-digit number is longer than anything else in the record and matches nothing in the address.
- The registrant is not the holder either. It starts with three letters for a site identifier and a four-digit number, then a two-letter code, then a dash, then a shipping company's name.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Long numbers in a netname come from the carrier's own order system, not from anything about the network. The label is a foreign key into a database nobody outside the carrier can read, and it will outlive the order it refers to.
- The registrant naming a marine terminal operator while the handle names a software firm is a parent and its subsidiary in adjacent fields. The addresses were ordered by the group; the routing was set up by the part of it that writes the software.
- Two upstreams and nothing answering: a business whose product runs inside other people's ports.
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 2026-11-05, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16763- Registry name
- TIDEWORKS
- Registrant
- Tideworks Technology
- Abuse contact
- todd.spitzer@tideworks.com
- Registered
- 2000-06-07
- Last changed
- 2022-05-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16763
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS16763
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: 453 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-06. 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