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.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 12 |
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
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere