Autonomous system
AS30094 GIGANEWS
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Giganews
usenet content business
GIGANEWS is the autonomous system for Giganews, Inc., a long-standing Usenet and newsgroup service provider.
What it's used for
- The address space carries Usenet infrastructure, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
cruncher1.ord.goldenfrog.com,dca-4.usenetnow.net, anddca.blocknews.net. - The AS announces 4,608 IPv4 addresses across 6 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, with 6 observed neighbours, indicating a content provider role rather than a transit or access network.
Notable
- Registrants for the largest prefixes include Giganews, Inc., SuperNews, Paradise Networks LLC, and Usenet Solutions LLC, reflecting a history of acquisitions and brand consolidation within the Usenet industry.
- Giganews has operated since 1994 and is known for high-retention Usenet services, with the AS first seen in routing tables in 2003.
- The inventory includes a mix of legacy and acquired address blocks, such as
69.80.96.0/21and216.168.0.0/22, which align with the company's growth through mergers in the Usenet space.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.236.159 |
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 6 prefixes · 4.61K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS30094- Registry name
- GIGANEWS
- Registrant
- Giganews, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@giganews.com
- Registered
- 2003-07-18
- Last changed
- 2012-03-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 33% valid · 4 valid, 8 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS30094
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 83% registered · 10 of 12 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 19 naming AS30094
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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