Autonomous system
AS6488 DS6488-0
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
AMUG (Arizona Macintosh Users Group)
hosting legacy
DS6488-0 is registered to AMUG, the Arizona Macintosh Users Group — a
nonprofit Macintosh user group founded in 1984 — with its network administered
out of Tempe, Arizona.
What it's used for
- Announces two
/24s: AMUG's own204.62.193.0/24and a block registered to CompBid, Inc. - The address space carries the group's own site (
amug.org) alongside a small local hosting operation; reverse DNS across the network points atphxhosting.net.
Notable
- User-group ASNs are a rarity. AMUG's registration dates to the mid-1990s, when volunteer computer clubs commonly ran real internet infrastructure — bulletin boards, FTP mirrors and shareware archives — and needed portable address space to do it.
- AMUG was widely known in the Mac world for its shareware and public-domain software collections, including an Info-Mac archive mirror and the CD/DVD-distributed AMUG collections.
Interesting
- The organisation still exists as a user group, but the network today looks less like a club and more like a small Phoenix-area hosting provider that keeps the group's legacy address space in service.
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 | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6488- Registry name
- DS6488-0
- Registrant
- AMUG
- Abuse contact
- dschnur@tempetechnology.com
- Registered
- 1996-05-02
- Last changed
- 2019-08-17
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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