Autonomous system
AS7682 HOTNET HOKKAIDO TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK Co., Inc.
Unclassified AFRINIC NSP
Summary
Hokkaido Telecommunications Network Co., Inc. (HOTnet)
enterprise isp legacy
HOTNET is Hokkaido Telecommunications Network Co., Inc., trading as HOTnet — the telecoms arm of the Hokkaido Electric Power group, based in Sapporo and operating some 20,000 km of its own optical fibre across Hokkaido.
What it's used for
- About 35,800 addresses across six prefixes, plus
2001:398::/32in IPv6. - Reverse DNS is uniformly
NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN.hotcn.ne.jp— plain address-derived names on the company's own domain, with named infrastructure such asns.hotcn.ne.jp. That is generic assigned space, not a labelled consumer access pool: there are nopppoe-,dsl-,dyn-orpc-style markers of the kind the other utility ISPs publish. - The service portfolio is corporate: leased lines and dark fibre, wide-area Ethernet, data-centre services, and broadband access sold largely to businesses and public bodies across the island's municipalities.
Notable
- Classified as business, not eyeball, and this distinction matters. HOTnet is the one utility-telecom in this cohort that did not build a mass consumer fibre brand — unlike QTnet's BBIQ (AS7679) or Enecom's MEGA EGG (AS7670) — so its addresses tend to sit at company offices and institutions rather than in homes.
- Taking "power-company telecom in Japan" as shorthand for "residential ISP" would get this one wrong.
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
Recorded at 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| BroadBand Internet eXchange Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 101.203.88.200 |
| JPIX Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 210.171.224.165 |
| BroadBand Internet eXchange Osaka | Osaka, Japan | 218.100.9.196 |
| JPIX Osaka | Osaka, Japan | 103.246.232.175 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 1 downstream and 13 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 35.84K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| JP | Japan | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS7682- Registry name
- HOTNET
- Registered
- 1997-11-13
- Last changed
- 2005-07-08
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- HOTnet
- Also known as
- HOTCN
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-HOTNET-HOTCN- Present at
- 6 exchanges
- Facilities
- 2 facilities
- Website
- https://www.hotnet.co.jp
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 86% valid · 6 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS7682
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS7682
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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