Autonomous system
AS6653 VERO-NETWORKS-AS6653
Residential ARIN
Summary
Vero Broadband
isp legacy
VERO-NETWORKS-AS6653 is Vero Broadband (Vero Networks / Vero Fiber), a regional internet service provider headquartered in Colorado.
What it's used for
- Residential and small-business internet — fibre-to-the-home and fixed wireless — across rural and mountain communities in Colorado and neighbouring states.
- Announces roughly 47k IPv4 addresses across several dozen prefixes.
Notable
- Vero grew by acquiring established local ISPs, and the reverse DNS on its address space still carries their names: blocks resolve under
forethought.netandouraynet.com, among other legacy brands it now operates under. - An eyeball network. The scattered, heterogeneous prefix list is the fingerprint of a roll-up: each acquired ISP brought its own address blocks along.
Interesting
- ARIN dates the ASN registration to 1996 while the organisation record was updated in 2023, so the number itself is genuinely old — it simply changed hands as the underlying ISP business was bought and rebranded.
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
Recorded at 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 2001:504:16::19fd |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas | Dallas, United States | 2001:504:0:5::6653:1 |
| Interconnection eXchange Denver | Denver, United States | 206.53.175.34 |
Transit providers
17 upstream, 7 downstream and 34 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 59 prefixes · 47.36K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 60 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6653- Registry name
- VERO-NETWORKS-AS6653
- Registrant
- Vero Broadband
- Abuse contact
- abuse@verofiber.com
- Registered
- 1996-06-18
- Last changed
- 2023-01-26
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 96% valid · 43 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 17 authorising AS6653
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 45 of 45 announcements
- Route objects
- 97 naming AS6653
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: 442 networks and 1,772 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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