Autonomous system
AS6984 NYNEX-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Verizon Business (NYNEX-AS)
enterprise legacy
A Verizon Business autonomous system that still carries the handle NYNEX-AS,
after NYNEX — the Regional Bell Operating Company for New York and New England —
which merged into Bell Atlantic in 1997 and then became Verizon in 2000.
What it's used for
- Announces roughly 90k IPv4 addresses across dozens of prefixes drawn from Verizon's inherited estate: the GTE-registered
132.197.0.0/16and blocks out of the old UUNET63.0.0.0/8allocations. - Also acts as an upstream for a small number of Verizon-affiliated ASNs, including a Bell Atlantic AS and Tracfone Wireless.
Notable
- The handle is a corporate fossil. The organisation of record is Verizon Business in Ashburn, Virginia; NYNEX has not existed as a company since the 1990s.
- Almost none of the announced space carries reverse DNS, so the current use of these addresses is not publicly evident — treat any confident claim about what lives here with suspicion.
- It is not Verizon's transit backbone, which is [AS701](https://asn.ipinfo.app/AS701) — one of this AS's several upstreams.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 45 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6984- Registry name
- NYNEX-AS
- Registrant
- Verizon Business
- Abuse contact
- abuse@verizon.com
- Registered
- 1996-07-17
- Last changed
- 2024-03-07
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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