Autonomous system
AS6372 DCANET
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
DCANet
isp hosting legacy
DCANET is DCANet, a facilities-based ISP and competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) based in Wilmington, Delaware. It has served the Delaware Valley since the early 1990s and took its AS number in 1996.
What it's used for
- Business internet access — fibre, ethernet and dedicated circuits — across Delaware and the Philadelphia area.
- Server colocation and managed hosting out of DCANet data centres in Wilmington, DE and Old City Philadelphia.
- Voice/IP telephony and managed network services for regional business customers.
Notable
The address space is commercial, not consumer: it fronts business circuits, colocated servers and hosted infrastructure rather than household broadband. That gives it a mixed profile — some ranges look like enterprise access, others like small-scale hosting — which is typical of a regional CLEC that grew a data-centre business alongside its access network.
Interesting
DCANet is one of a shrinking set of independent, locally-owned regional ISPs from the first commercial internet wave that still operates its own facilities rather than reselling a national carrier's.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 25 prefixes · 39.42K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 26 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6372- Registry name
- DCANET
- Registrant
- DCANet
- Abuse contact
- arin_tech@dca.net
- Registered
- 1996-03-25
- Last changed
- 1996-03-25
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 8 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6372
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 19 naming AS6372
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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: 447 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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