Autonomous system
AS6405 AIN
Hosting ARIN
Summary
AiNET (American Information Network)
hosting legacy
AIN is American Information Network, better known as AiNET — a data-centre and fibre operator founded in 1993 and headquartered in Beltsville, Maryland, in the Washington DC metro area.
What it's used for
- Colocation and data-centre services out of AiNET facilities in the Maryland / DC corridor, including customers in the government-adjacent market that clusters there.
- Fibre-optic network and IP connectivity for those hosted customers.
- Announces a mix of its own
205.134.160.0/19legacy space plus prefixes carried out of upstream ranges, and IPv6.
Notable
This is hosting and colocation address space: the addresses sit in front of racks and customer servers, not households. Geolocation resolves to AiNET's Maryland facilities, and reverse DNS on the network's own infrastructure carries ai.net hostnames — including some old exchange-point naming that reflects how long the network has been peering.
An AS number below 6500 and a /19 of pre-CIDR-era address space mark AiNET as a first-generation commercial internet company, established before the ARIN registry existed in its current form.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| The Baltimore Internet Exchange | Baltimore, United States | 206.81.105.11 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-17, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 8 prefixes · 13.82K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 8 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6405- Registry name
- AIN
- Registrant
- American Information Network
- Abuse contact
- nc@ai.net
- Registered
- 1996-04-02
- Last changed
- 1998-12-14
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 81% valid · 13 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS6405
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 16 of 16 announcements
- Route objects
- 26 naming AS6405
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: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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