Autonomous system
AS36599 SOFTETHER-AMERICA
VPN ARIN
Summary
SoftEther / VPN Gate
vpn
The network of the SoftEther Telecommunication Research Institute, LLC, the
entity behind the SoftEther VPN software and the academic VPN Gate
project. The org is a US-registered ARIN LLC (Sacramento, California), but the
project originates from Japan and its IPs egress from Tokyo.
What it's used for
- VPN egress for SoftEther / VPN Gate users. VPN Gate is a volunteer-run public relay experiment (from the University of Tsukuba) that lets people bypass censorship by routing through donated relay servers.
Notable
- An IP here is a VPN exit, not an end user's real address. VPN Gate relays are public and heavily shared, so these IPs appear prominently on VPN/proxy detection and blocklists.
Interesting
- SoftEther began as a University of Tsukuba research project by Daiyuu Nobori and remains widely used open-source multi-protocol VPN software.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS36599- Registry name
- SOFTETHER-AMERICA
- Registrant
- SoftEther Telecommunication Research Institute, LLC
- Abuse contact
- open-poc@rt.open.ad.jp
- Registered
- 2017-01-25
- Last changed
- 2018-02-02
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
VPN Commercial VPN operator. Traffic is proxied on behalf of subscribers.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
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