Autonomous system
AS7297 AP-AS
Unclassified ARIN
IPv4 addresses
13.82K
15 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes
0
counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries
1
mostly US
Flagged prefixes
0
none
Summary
The Associated Press
enterprise media legacy
AP-AS is the network of The Associated Press, the not-for-profit news
cooperative headquartered at 200 Liberty Street in New York City.
What it's used for
- AP's corporate and editorial network — newsroom systems, bureaux, and the distribution infrastructure behind its wire, photo, and video services.
- Announces
165.1.0.0/18and several/24s carved from it; the whole165.1range is registered to the AP.
Notable
- This is an enterprise network run by a news organisation, not a service provider. Nothing here is sold as connectivity.
- The AP is a member-owned cooperative of US newspapers and broadcasters, which makes it an unusual entry among the corporations that took AS numbers in this era.
Interesting
- News agencies were early adopters of dedicated networking — wire copy and photos moved over leased lines long before the internet — so the AP had reason to run its own AS as soon as it was practical to do so.
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 | 15 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7297- Registry name
- AP-AS
- Registrant
- The Associated Press
- Abuse contact
- networkengineers@ap.org
- Registered
- 1996-11-04
- Last changed
- 2026-02-09
- 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