Autonomous system
AS5056 AUREON-5056
Residential ARIN
Summary
Aureon Network Services
transit isp legacy
AUREON-5056 — Aureon Network Services, formerly Iowa Network Services (and still trading as netINS for internet services), a West Des Moines carrier that provides statewide network services to Iowa's independent telephone companies.
What it's used for
- Wholesale transport and IP transit sold to regional telcos, ISPs, CLECs, and municipal broadband networks across Iowa.
- Internet access under the netINS brand, with address space sub-allocated downstream — so a good share of its ~291,000 addresses ultimately lands on end-user broadband connections served by member carriers.
Notable
- A carrier's carrier: the network exists to aggregate and backhaul for other providers, which is why its address holdings dwarf those of any single Iowa telco.
Interesting
- The company began as the Iowa Switch Company in 1988, formed after the Bell System breakup so that Iowa's independent telcos could reach long-distance carriers, and became the first Centralized Equal Access provider in the United States.
- ARIN registered AS5056 in 1995.
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 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange | Minneapolis, United States | 206.108.255.153 |
| Kansas City Internet Exchange | Kansas City, United States | 206.51.7.159 |
| Quad Cities Internet Exchange | Davenport, United States | 206.83.43.64 |
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 544 prefixes · 291K addresses IPv6 76 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 620 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS5056- Registry name
- AUREON-5056
- Registrant
- Aureon Network Services
- Abuse contact
- abuse@netins.net
- Registered
- 1995-06-05
- Last changed
- 2022-07-13
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 229 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS5056
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.6% registered · 228 of 229 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 46 naming AS5056
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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