Autonomous system
AS6368 NETNITCO-ASN
Residential APNIC Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
NITCO (Northwestern Indiana Telephone Co.)
isp legacy
NETNITCO-ASN belongs to Northwestern Indiana Telephone Company, trading as NITCO — a family-run rural telephone company headquartered in Hebron, Indiana. It is the ISP arm of a long-established local exchange carrier.
What it's used for
- Residential and small-business internet in rural northwest Indiana: fibre, DSL and fixed wireless, alongside the company's traditional telephone service.
- Announces a
/19and a/20of IPv4 plus an IPv6/32— a small, self-contained subscriber footprint.
Notable
This is eyeball space: the addresses sit in front of homes and small businesses in a handful of Indiana counties, not in a data centre. Traffic is consumer-shaped — evening-heavy, streaming-dominated, with a modest total address count typical of an independent rural telco rather than a national carrier.
The AS was registered with ARIN in the mid-1990s, when incumbent rural telcos across the US were adding dial-up internet to their phone business and taking their own AS numbers to do it.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.212 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-25, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 12.29K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS6368- Registry name
- NETNITCO-ASN
- Registrant
- Northwestern Indiana Telephone Co.
- Abuse contact
- admin@netnitco.net
- Registered
- 1996-03-22
- Last changed
- 2011-04-05
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Northwestern Indiana Telephone Co.
- Also known as
- FBN Indiana, Inc.
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- http://www.nitco.com
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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6368
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS6368
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: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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