Autonomous system
AS8173 STARBOARD - Starboard Networks LLC
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Starboard Networks LLC
enterprise legacy
STARBOARD is held by Starboard Networks LLC, a New Orleans, Louisiana company. Despite the low number, this is a reissued ASN: the ARIN organisation was created in April 2024, the ASN registered in May 2024, and its only IPv4 block registered in October 2025.
What it's used for
- Announces a single
/22(plus IPv6) behind one upstream. There is no reverse DNS anywhere in the block, so what the space actually carries is not observable. - The company presents itself as an IT, professional and network-services contractor rather than as an ISP or a hosting provider.
Notable
- Do not read early-internet pedigree into this number. Everything about the registration is recent; the low AS number was recycled, not inherited.
- With one prefix, one upstream and no rDNS, there is not enough evidence to put this AS in an honest category — it is deliberately left unclassified rather than guessed at.
Interesting
- Its single upstream is a small tunnel/transit provider rather than a regional carrier, which is typical of a network that exists to hold and originate address space rather than to move traffic.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS209533 | iFog GmbH | 93 |
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 1 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8173- Registry name
- STARBOARD
- Registrant
- Starboard Networks LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@starboardnetworks.com
- Registered
- 2024-05-07
- Last changed
- 2024-05-07
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS8173
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS8173
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 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-01. 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