Autonomous system
AS7792 3M-HDQ-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
3M Company
enterprise legacy
3M-HDQ-AS is the corporate network of 3M Company, the diversified manufacturer headquartered in the Saint Paul, Minnesota area.
What it's used for
- Enterprise IT for 3M: corporate offices, manufacturing sites, laboratories and the company's internet-facing services.
- Announces a large legacy inventory — including
130.99.0.0/16,136.229.0.0/16and contiguous space in169.6.0.0/15and169.8.0.0/14— roughly a million IPv4 addresses in total.
Notable
- The address count is misleading as a measure of activity. Almost none of this space carries public reverse DNS, which is the signature of a corporation that numbered itself generously in the early 1990s and has kept the space internal ever since.
- Nothing here is eyeball or hosting space: it is a single company's private network, and prefixes should be attributed to 3M's own sites rather than to any service provider.
Interesting
- Large industrial firms that joined the internet early are among the quietest holders of big IPv4 blocks — visible in the routing table, nearly invisible in the DNS.
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 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 21 prefixes · 942K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 21 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7792- Registry name
- 3M-HDQ-AS
- Registrant
- 3M Company
- Abuse contact
- hhpham@mmm.com
- Registered
- 1997-01-15
- Last changed
- 2017-05-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 28 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS7792
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 28 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS7792
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: 447 networks and 1,845 prefixes, as published 2026-10-31. 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