Autonomous system
AS7253 MAINSTAY-COMMUNICATIONS
Residential ARIN
Summary
Mainstay Communications
isp legacy
MAINSTAY-COMMUNICATIONS belongs to Mainstay Communications, a small
telecommunications provider based in Henderson, Nebraska, serving Henderson and
surrounding York County communities.
What it's used for
- Residential and small-business internet access — fiber, fixed wireless and legacy DSL — across a handful of rural Nebraska towns.
- Reverse DNS on its space uses a
…dynamic.mainstaycomm.netpattern, the telltale of a dynamically addressed subscriber pool.
Notable
- The network is tiny by ISP standards: a single
/21plus a/24, enough for a service area measured in the low thousands of residents. - Small independent telcos like this are the backbone of rural US connectivity, and many of them run their own AS purely so they can multihome to more than one upstream.
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 | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7253- Registry name
- MAINSTAY-COMMUNICATIONS
- Registrant
- Mainstay Communications
- Abuse contact
- corey@mainstaycomm.net
- Registered
- 2009-10-16
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- 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