Autonomous system
AS6569 NATIONWIDEASN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
enterprise legacy
NATIONWIDEASN is the corporate autonomous system of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, the American insurance and financial-services group headquartered at Nationwide Plaza in Columbus, Ohio.
What it's used for
AS6569 carries Nationwide's own internet connectivity. It originates the company's legacy 155.188.0.0/16 and 156.138.64.0/18 space, roughly 81,000 IPv4 addresses, plus assorted more-specifics. The addresses serve the group's offices, data centres and public-facing services.
Notable
This is an enterprise address, not a provider one. A large insurer runs an AS for the same reasons a bank does: multihoming, control of its own edge, and stable addressing for partner and agent connectivity that has to survive a change of carrier.
The /16 is a reminder of how much address space a large US enterprise could obtain in the early 1990s. ARIN registered AS6569 in May 1996.
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 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 36 prefixes · 81.66K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 36 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6569- Registry name
- NATIONWIDEASN
- Registrant
- Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
- Abuse contact
- IPADMIN@nationwide.com
- Registered
- 1996-05-28
- Last changed
- 2024-02-23
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 15 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6569
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 87% registered · 13 of 15 announcements
- Route objects
- 19 naming AS6569
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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