Autonomous system
AS6540 PATH-NETWORK
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Samuel Cosgrove
legacy
AS6540 is registered in the RIPE region to Samuel Cosgrove, an individual RIPE LIR in the United Kingdom. The number was transferred out of the ARIN region and re-registered under RIPE in January 2026; older datasets still label it with its previous holder, Path Network, Inc.
What it's used for
The AS originates a small amount of address space: a /24 registered to Samuel Cosgrove, a /24 that is still registered to Path Network, and an IPv6 /29. Transit comes from Telia, Lumen and Path Network itself. There is no reverse DNS on the announced IPv4 space and no published network description, so the concrete use of the addresses is not observable from the routing table.
Notable
This is one of the low AS numbers that has genuinely changed hands rather than staying with an early-internet holder. Anything you read about AS6540 that describes a DDoS-mitigation or transit business is describing Path Network, the previous registrant, not the current one.
Because the current registration is a personal LIR with no self-description and no rDNS, the network's purpose is best treated as unknown rather than guessed at.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6540- Registry name
- SAMUEL-COSGROVE
- Registrant
- lir-uk-sam-1-MNT
- Abuse contact
- samuel@unlimited.dog
- Registered
- 2026-01-26
- Last changed
- 2026-05-13
- 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