Autonomous system
AS8 RICE-AS
Unclassified ARIN
IPv4 addresses
462K
15 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes
1
counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries
1
mostly US
Flagged prefixes
0
none
Summary
Rice University
education university research legacy
One of the oldest allocations on the internet (RICE-AS), serving Rice
University in Houston, Texas.
What it's used for
- Campus, research, and administrative networking for the university.
Notable
- A single-digit AS number reflects how early Rice connected, handed out sequentially in the internet's first years. An institutional network, not a commercial ISP.
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 | 16 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8- Registry name
- RICE-AS
- Registrant
- Rice University
- Abuse contact
- ipadmin@rice.edu
- Registered
- 1984-03-26
- Last changed
- 1997-11-10
- 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