Autonomous system
AS22577 LOON
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Loon (Google LLC)
google loon ipv6 balloon
The AS handle LOON is held by Google LLC.
What it's used for
- The address space carries a single IPv6 prefix,
2606:ec80::/44, with no announced IPv4 addresses. - The inventory consists of 1 IPv6 prefix and 0 IPv4 prefixes, observed against 1 routing neighbour, indicating a minimal footprint likely dedicated to specific internal or experimental services.
Notable
- The registry holder is listed as "LOON - Google LLC", aligning the AS with Google's corporate structure.
- Loon was a Google project that provided internet access via high-altitude balloons; the AS number was first seen in routing tables in 2005, predating the public launch of the Loon project, suggesting the number was allocated for other Google infrastructure before being repurposed or retained for the balloon network.
- The address inventory is extremely sparse, consisting of a single /44 IPv6 block, which does not fit the profile of a large-scale consumer or transit network.
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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 2026-10-20, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 0 prefixes · 0 addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS22577- Registry name
- GOOGLE-DC
- Registrant
- Google LLC
- Abuse contact
- network-abuse@google.com
- Registered
- 2009-01-22
- Last changed
- 2026-05-05
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS22577
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS22577
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 1,778 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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