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.
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 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| 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
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS7253
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS7253
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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