Autonomous system
AS81 NCREN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
MCNC / North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN)
education research legacy
The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), a statewide research
and education network built and operated by the nonprofit MCNC.
What it's used for
- Providing broadband connectivity to universities, K-12 schools, community colleges, libraries, and non-profit health care across North Carolina.
Notable
- A regional research-and-education network (NREN), not a commercial ISP. One of America's longest-running regional R&E networks. The low AS number reflects an allocation from the internet's earliest years.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 262 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS81- Registry name
- NCREN
- Registrant
- MCNC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@mcnc.org
- Registered
- 1986-08-07
- Last changed
- 2026-06-10
- 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