Autonomous system
AS3848 WORLDLINX-2
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
WorldLinx Telecommunications, Inc. (Bell Canada)
isp legacy
WorldLinx Telecommunications, Inc. (WORLDLINX-2), a Bell Canada subsidiary registered in Ottawa, Ontario. Technical contact for the ASN is Bell's IP administration.
What it's used for
- Carrying network connectivity for Bell's business and enterprise customers — reverse DNS across its prefixes lands on Canadian corporate domains.
- Roughly 210,000 IPv4 addresses spread over close to a hundred prefixes, the shape of a carrier handing blocks to many separate customer sites.
Notable
- Despite the size, this is not an eyeball network: the addresses sit in business customer networks reached through Bell, not in homes.
- WorldLinx was Bell Canada's unregulated arm for high-end business telecommunications — global interconnection, data services, and messaging.
Interesting
- The corporate brand has effectively vanished into Bell, but the registry record and the AS number survive. This is common at the bottom of the ASN space: the paperwork outlives the company name on the door.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 74 prefixes · 166K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 74 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS3848- Registry name
- WORLDLINX-2
- Registrant
- WorldLinx Telecommunications, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- nobody@example.com
- Registered
- 1994-09-26
- Last changed
- 2010-05-14
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 20% valid · 22 valid, 90 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 25 authorising AS3848
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 112 announcements 19 other origin
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS3848
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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