Autonomous system
AS63293 FACEBOOK-OFFNET
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Meta Platforms
content business global
FACEBOOK-OFFNET is operated by Meta Platforms, Inc.
What it's used for
- The address space carries corporate infrastructure, with netnames
THEFA-3andORG-FSAL1-AFRINICregistered to Facebook, Inc. and Facebook South Africa (Pty) Ltd. - The AS announces 24,320 IPv4 addresses and 39 IPv6 prefixes, maintaining 113 observed neighbours; this high neighbour count relative to the address inventory indicates a transit-heavy role for global content delivery.
- Traffic from this AS consists of web and API endpoints for Meta's social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.
Notable
- Registrants align with the announcer, listing Facebook, Inc. for the majority of prefixes and Facebook South Africa (Pty) Ltd for specific AFRINIC allocations.
- The operator was formerly known as Facebook, Inc., rebranding to Meta Platforms, Inc. in 2021 to reflect its strategic shift toward the metaverse.
- The inventory is finely subdivided into numerous /22, /23, and /24 blocks, consistent with an internal corporate estate segmented by site or function.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 64 exchanges in 38 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.81.157 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.142 |
| Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 103.161.216.99 |
| Omadata Internet Exchange (ODIX) | Surabaya, Indonesia | 218.100.74.100 |
| Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | 196.223.21.135 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.142 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.30.23 |
| Northwest Access Exchange | Portland, United States | 198.32.195.128 |
Transit providers
88 upstream, 0 downstream and 153 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS174 | Cogent Communications, LLC | 927 |
| AS61580 | Nucleo de Inf. e Coord. do Ponto BR - NIC.BR | 397 |
| AS10084 | Internet Association of Australia Content Network | 291 |
| AS37271 | Workonline Communications(Pty) Ltd | 273 |
| AS206186 | Stowarzyszenie e-Poludnie | 198 |
| AS23951 | PT JEMBATAN CITRA NUSANTARA | 197 |
| AS64116 | PIT PERU S.A.C | 188 |
| AS37100 | SEACOM Limited | 185 |
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 46 prefixes · 24.32K addresses IPv6 38 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 84 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS63293- Registry name
- FACEBOOK-OFFNET
- Registrant
- Facebook, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- noc@fb.com
- Registered
- 2014-11-10
- Last changed
- 2014-11-10
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 88% valid · 150 valid, 21 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 174 authorising AS63293
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 171 of 171 announcements
- Route objects
- 222 naming AS63293
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