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 — 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.
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.
Transit providers
6 upstream, 2 downstream and 12 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 35 prefixes · 89.86K addresses IPv6 14 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 49 |
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
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 45% valid · 41 valid, 50 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 42 authorising AS6984
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 44% registered · 40 of 91 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 45 naming AS6984
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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