Autonomous system
AS6394 DATA-BROADCASTING - Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
enterprise legacy
DATA-BROADCASTING is now held by Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), the Atlanta-headquartered exchange and financial-data group that owns the New York Stock Exchange. The handle records the original registrant — Data Broadcasting Corporation, a market-data distributor whose business line descended through Interactive Data into today's ICE Data Services.
What it's used for
- Corporate and market-data infrastructure for ICE's data business.
- A very small footprint: two
/24s out of156.48.0.0, on the order of five hundred IPv4 addresses.
Notable
This is enterprise address space belonging to a financial-data firm, not an ISP or a hosting provider. Addresses here front data-distribution and corporate systems; there are no subscriber pools. The tiny announced count relative to the low AS number is characteristic of a 1990s registrant that never needed to grow its public IPv4 footprint.
Interesting
The registry handle is a fossil. DATA-BROADCASTING names a company that stopped existing under that name decades ago, but the AS number and its address blocks followed the market-data business through each acquisition and now sit inside one of the world's largest exchange operators.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS23763 | FT Interactive Data Melbourne | 118 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-08, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6394- Registry name
- DATA-BROADCASTING
- Registrant
- Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@theice.com
- Registered
- 1996-03-28
- Last changed
- 2021-12-06
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6394
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 2 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 8 naming AS6394
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: 455 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-09. 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