Autonomous system
AS36040 YOUTUBE
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Google LLC (YouTube)
video cdn streaming
A Google Autonomous System originally allocated to YouTube. It now sits inside Google's network and carries mostly first-party media traffic, especially video delivery and edge caching.
What it's used for
- Serving YouTube and other Google media, frequently from Google Global Cache (GGC) nodes placed inside ISP networks to keep popular video close to viewers.
- Announcing content prefixes under the registry name
YOUTUBE, separate from Google's primary consumer ASN AS15169 and from Google Cloud's AS396982.
Notable
- The ASN was registered in 2005, the year YouTube was founded, and predates Google's 2006 acquisition of the company. It has kept the
YOUTUBEregistry name even though the org record now reads Google LLC. - PeeringDB classifies it as a Content network with global reach and a selective peering policy, consistent with a dedicated media-delivery role rather than general-purpose hosting.
Interesting
- Google splits its footprint across several ASNs by role (AS15169 for core consumer products, AS396982 for Google Cloud, and this one rooted in YouTube's origins), so which ASN an IP lands in hints at which part of Google you are actually talking to.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 11 exchanges in 10 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| IX.br (PTT.br) São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil | 2001:12f8::54 |
| IX.br (PTT.br) Fortaleza | Fortaleza, Brazil | 45.68.73.133 |
| Thinx IX | Warsaw, Poland | 212.91.0.253 |
| Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.216.148.173 |
| Luxembourg Internet Exchange | Luxembourg, Luxembourg | 188.93.170.93 |
| Slovak Internet eXchange Bratislava | Bratislava, Slovakia | 192.108.148.163 |
| Puerto Rico Internet Exchange | San Juan, Puerto Rico | 204.138.0.50 |
| Ghana Internet Exchange Association | Accra, Ghana | 196.201.2.121 |
Transit providers
33 upstream, 0 downstream and 47 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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 47 prefixes · 21.25K addresses IPv6 27 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 74 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Registered
- 2005-08-03
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 96% valid · 132 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 543 authorising AS36040
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 91% registered · 125 of 137 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 619 naming AS36040
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 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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