Autonomous system
AS21 RAND
Unclassified ARIN
IPv4 addresses
2.56K
9 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes
0
counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries
1
mostly US
Flagged prefixes
0
none
Summary
RAND Corporation
research legacy
An early allocation (RAND) belonging to the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit
policy research organization in Santa Monica, California.
What it's used for
- Research networking for the think tank.
Notable
- A low AS number reflects an allocation from the internet's earliest years. A research institution's network, not a commercial ISP.
Interesting
- RAND's Paul Baran developed foundational ideas on distributed, packet-switched communication that influenced the design of the ARPANET.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS21- Registry name
- RAND
- Registrant
- The RAND Corporation
- Abuse contact
- Whois_Admins@rand.org
- Registered
- 1984-07-30
- Last changed
- 2021-03-23
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere