Autonomous system
AS6580 GWTC
Residential ARIN
Summary
Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative
isp residential eyeball legacy
GWTC is the autonomous system of Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc., a member-owned telephone and broadband cooperative headquartered in Wall, South Dakota.
What it's used for
Golden West provides internet, telephone and television service across a large rural footprint stretching from South Dakota's western border toward the eastern side of the state. AS6580 originates around 45,000 IPv4 addresses spread over roughly 50 prefixes, mostly /22s in 69.77.0.0/16, 68.69.0.0/16, 216.196.0.0/16 and 64.251.0.0/16. Reverse DNS follows a uniform subscriber pattern under gwtc.net, for example 69-77-192-1.ip4.gwtc.net.
Notable
This is a residential eyeball network. The heavily fragmented prefix list, many small /22s rather than a few large aggregates, is typical of a rural cooperative that grew by adding exchanges and acquiring neighbouring territories over decades.
Golden West traces its telephone service back to 1916 and incorporated as a cooperative in 1952, long before it became an internet provider. ARIN registered AS6580 in May 1996.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6580- Registry name
- GWTC
- Registrant
- Golden West Telecommunications Coop., Inc.
- Abuse contact
- netabuse@goldenwest.com
- Registered
- 1996-05-29
- Last changed
- 2023-08-28
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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