Autonomous system
AS19016 WCG-AS
Residential ARIN
Summary
Westman Communications Group
cable dsl isp residential
The AS handle WCG-AS is held by Westman Communications Group.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential broadband traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries like
v254.cre1b-bdn1.westmancom.comandv254.cre1b-dau1.westmancom.comwhich indicate cable and DSL access infrastructure. - The AS announces 30,720 IPv4 addresses across 11 prefixes and 2 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining 20 observed neighbours; this ratio of address space to peering partners is consistent with an access or eyeball network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- Most registrants align with the announcer, with Westman Communications Group holding the majority of prefixes under netnames such as
WCGNET-001,WCGNET-002,WCGNET-003, andWMAN. - Two prefixes are registered to different entities:
66.92.38.0/23is registered to Internet Utilities NA LLC (NETUTILS) and64.72.199.0/24is registered to 45 Networks Inc. (45-NETWORKS-01), suggesting leased space or historical acquisitions. - The inventory includes a large /18 block (216.36.128.0/18) alongside smaller /22, /23, and /24 blocks, indicating a mixed estate of legacy and newer allocations.
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
Recorded at 3 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.34.171 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.119 |
| Manitoba Internet Exchange | Winnipeg, Canada | 206.72.208.36 |
Transit providers
8 upstream, 2 downstream and 17 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 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 11 prefixes · 30.72K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 13 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS19016- Registry name
- WCG-AS
- Registrant
- Westman Communications Group
- Abuse contact
- abuse@westmancom.com
- Registered
- 2000-11-07
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 31 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 11 authorising AS19016
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 31 of 31 announcements
- Route objects
- 34 naming AS19016
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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