Autonomous system
AS7925 WVNET
Education ARIN
Summary
WVNET (West Virginia Network)
education research legacy
WVNET is the West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing, the state's shared technology and networking service for higher education, based in Morgantown.
What it's used for
- Backbone and internet connectivity for West Virginia's colleges and universities, plus shared hosting and IT services the agency provides on their behalf.
- It also announces
168.216.0.0/16, which is registered to the West Virginia Department of Education — WVNET carries the state's K-12 education network as well as higher-ed traffic.
Notable
- A state research-and-education network, so the space is institutional: schools, campuses and state education agencies, not commercial subscribers.
- WVNET's own legacy block
129.71.0.0/16was registered with ARIN in 1987, putting the organisation among the early regional academic networks; the ASN itself was registered in 1997.
Interesting
- Two
/16s under one AS, one for higher education and one for the K-12 system, is a compact illustration of how US states consolidated school and university connectivity behind a single provider.
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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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 131K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7925- Registry name
- WVNET
- Registrant
- West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing
- Abuse contact
- arin-abuse@mail.wvnet.edu
- Registered
- 1997-02-14
- Last changed
- 2016-03-10
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 50% valid · 3 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS7925
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 16 naming AS7925
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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