Autonomous system
AS7065 SNIC
Residential ARIN
Summary
Sonic
isp legacy
SNIC is Sonic.net, LLC, an independent Californian ISP based in Santa Rosa. It began in the 1990s as a regional dial-up and DSL provider and now sells fibre broadband and voice across parts of the San Francisco Bay Area and northern California.
What it's used for
- Residential and business internet access. Reverse DNS names the delivery method directly:
…fiber.dynamic.sonic.net,…dsl.static.sonic.net,…dedicated.static.sonic.net, alongside router names likevlan102.gw.<site>.sonic.net. - Some of the space still resolves under the branding of networks Sonic absorbed, including
hypersurf.com,fusionbroadband.comand Mendocino Community Network'smcn.org.
Notable
- This is an eyeball network: the great majority of the address space is assigned to end subscribers, not to servers.
- Sonic is unusual among US ISPs for its public stance on customer privacy, including a deliberately short retention window for subscriber records and an outspoken position in surveillance-related legal disputes.
- The mix of DSL and fibre naming in the same AS reflects a long, gradual technology transition rather than a clean cutover.
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 | 33 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7065- Registry name
- SNIC
- Registrant
- Sonic.net, LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@sonic.net
- Registered
- 1996-08-09
- Last changed
- 2020-11-20
- 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