Autonomous system
AS57 NL-GIGAPOP
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Northern Lights GigaPoP (University of Minnesota)
education research legacy
An early low-numbered allocation (NL-GIGAPOP) operated by the University of
Minnesota as the Northern Lights GigaPoP, a regional research-and-education
network.
What it's used for
- Internet and Internet2 connectivity for research, education, and government entities in Minnesota and the surrounding region.
Notable
- A research/education network aggregation point, not a commercial ISP or host.
- The low AS number reflects the University of Minnesota's early presence on the internet.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS57- Registry name
- NL-GIGAPOP
- Registrant
- University of Minnesota
- Abuse contact
- abuse@umn.edu
- Registered
- 1985-12-18
- Last changed
- 2021-11-08
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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.
Elsewhere