Autonomous system
AS6553 HTCNET-ORG
Residential ARIN
Summary
Highland Telephone Cooperative
isp legacy
HTCNET-ORG is the autonomous system of Highland Telephone Cooperative, a member-owned rural telephone and internet cooperative based in Monterey, Virginia, in Highland County. It is better known online by its domain, htcnet.org.
What it's used for
The cooperative provides local and long-distance telephone service and fiber internet to households and businesses in its rural service territory. AS6553 originates the cooperative's 137.118.144.0/22 and 137.118.194.0/23 space, whose reverse DNS follows a plain subscriber pattern (137-118-144-1.htcnet.org) and which also carries the cooperative's own DNS resolvers.
Notable
This is a very small eyeball network. The whole footprint is on the order of a thousand addresses, serving one of the least populous counties in Virginia. Rural telephone cooperatives like this one are a large and often-overlooked slice of US last-mile connectivity.
The number is low, but this is not an early-internet holder: ARIN's records show the ASN registered to the cooperative in 2009, so AS6553 was reissued rather than held from the beginning.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 1.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6553- Registry name
- HTCNET-ORG
- Registrant
- HTCNET.ORG
- Abuse contact
- newmanr@htcnet.org
- Registered
- 2009-10-12
- Last changed
- 2020-07-21
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6553
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS6553
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 447 networks and 1,845 prefixes, as published 2026-10-31. 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