Autonomous system
AS53667 PONYNET
Hosting ARIN
Summary
FranTech Solutions (BuyVM)
hosting vps
An Autonomous System operated by FranTech Solutions, the company behind the BuyVM brand of affordable VPS hosting. PONYNET
What it's used for
- Low-cost VPS, block storage, and DDoS-filtered virtual servers, marketed under the BuyVM name.
Notable
- An IP here identifies the host, not the operator of what runs on it — the cheap VPS model draws a wide mix of tenants.
- FranTech is known for accommodating a broad range of legal content, so this ASN appears in both legitimate and abuse-related contexts.
Interesting
- BuyVM built a following for pairing cheap VPS with unusually generous, low-cost block storage add-ons.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| New York International Internet Exchange | New York, United States | 2001:504:1::a505:3667:1 |
| FL-IX - The Florida Internet Exchange / Community IX - Florida | Miami, United States | 206.41.108.162 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 27 prefixes · 31.74K addresses IPv6 61 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 88 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS53667- Registry name
- PONYNET
- Registrant
- FranTech Solutions
- Abuse contact
- fdias@frantech.ca
- Registered
- 2010-11-19
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- FranTech Solutions
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-FRANTECH- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- https://frantech.ca
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 97% valid · 73 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 40 authorising AS53667
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 96% registered · 72 of 75 announcements
- Route objects
- 120 naming AS53667
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 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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