Autonomous system
AS6924 STARTRIB
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Star Tribune
enterprise legacy
STARTRIB is the autonomous system of the Star Tribune, the daily newspaper of Minneapolis and the largest news organisation in Minnesota.
What it's used for
- The newspaper's own corporate and publishing network: newsroom systems, business infrastructure, and public-facing services. Reverse DNS on the space resolves to Star Tribune firewall hosts under
startribune.com.
Notable
- This is an ordinary enterprise network, not a media-industry service provider. The three announced
/24s are small, and the address space serves one company. - Newspapers were unusually early adopters of internet presence, which is why a regional daily holds an AS number registered back in June 1996 in the same sequential run as its numeric neighbours.
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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 2026-10-21, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6924- Registry name
- STARTRIB
- Registrant
- Star Tribune
- Abuse contact
- tylar.twite@startribune.com
- Registered
- 1996-06-24
- Last changed
- 2015-09-28
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6924
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS6924
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-22. 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