Autonomous system
AS26794 DCN-AS
Residential ARIN
Summary
Dakota Carrier Network
isp fiber regional business
DCN-AS is operated by Dakota Carrier Network, a regional telecommunications provider serving North Dakota and the Upper Midwest.
What it's used for
- The address space carries carrier-grade fiber connectivity, transport, and colocation services, with netnames
DCN-NET-1,DCN-NET-2, andDCN-NET-3registered to Dakota Carrier Network. - The AS announces 16384 IPv4 addresses across 28 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, maintaining 27 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a regional access and transport network rather than a pure transit provider.
Notable
- All registrants in the evidence pack align with the announcer, listing Dakota Carrier Network and DCN NOC for the observed prefixes.
- The address inventory is finely subdivided into multiple /23 and /24 blocks across three distinct netnames, reflecting site-by-site segmentation for its fiber and transport infrastructure.
- Secondary sources confirm the operator provides services to telecom providers, enterprises, and public sector networks in the region.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange | Minneapolis, United States | 206.108.255.60 |
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 28 prefixes · 16.38K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 29 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS26794- Registry name
- DCN-AS
- Registrant
- Dakota Carrier Network
- Abuse contact
- dcnadmin@dakotacarrier.com
- Registered
- 2002-11-21
- Last changed
- 2002-11-21
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS26794
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 98 naming AS26794
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: 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