Autonomous system
AS32590 VALVE-CORPORATION
Hosting ARIN Content
Summary
Valve (Steam)
gaming content
Valve Corporation (VALVE-CORPORATION) — the game developer and operator of Steam, the dominant PC-gaming storefront and platform.
What it's used for
- Steam's own services: the store, matchmaking, and game content delivery for Valve's titles and the wider Steam catalog.
Notable
- First-party gaming infrastructure; an IP here is Valve/Steam, frequently seen when a PC game is downloading or connecting to Steam.
- Valve also uses commercial CDNs for bulk game downloads, so not all Steam traffic originates in this ASN.
Interesting
- Steam sales and big game launches produce some of the largest coordinated download spikes on the consumer internet.
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 65 exchanges in 27 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| IX.br (PTT.br) São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil | 187.16.218.155 |
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.193.63 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.226.130 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.211.23 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.116.199 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.9.21 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.237.57 |
| MSK-IX Moscow | Moscow, Russia | 195.208.209.209 |
Transit providers
76 upstream, 0 downstream and 116 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 20 prefixes · 13.57K addresses IPv6 12 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 32 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS32590- Registry name
- VALVE-CORPORATION
- Registrant
- Valve Corporation
- Abuse contact
- noc@valvesoftware.com
- Registered
- 2011-03-08
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Valve Corporation
- Also known as
- Steam
- Network type
- Content
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Outbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
RADB::AS-VALVE- Present at
- 82 exchanges
- Facilities
- 34 facilities
- Website
- http://www.valvesoftware.com
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 78 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 59 authorising AS32590
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 78 of 78 announcements
- Route objects
- 948 naming AS32590
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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