Autonomous system
AS36599 SOFTETHER-AMERICA - SoftEther Telecommunication Research Institute, LLC
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.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS59103 | SoftEther Corporation | 248 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-01, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 1.79K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| 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
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS36599
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS36599
Reputation
Classification and threat
VPN Commercial VPN operator. Traffic is proxied on behalf of subscribers.
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: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-02. 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