Autonomous system
AS8175 HIGHSPEEDWEB
Hosting DROP-listed space ARIN
Summary
High Speed Web / Genesis 2 Networks
legacy
HIGHSPEEDWEB is held by High Speed Web/Genesis 2 Networks, registered with ARIN at an address in Rock Hill, South Carolina. It announces roughly 41,000 IPv4 addresses. What that space actually carries is not observable, and this card deliberately stops short of assigning it a category.
What it's used for
- Six aggregate prefixes are announced — including a
/17, a/18and a/19— behind two small upstreams (a Charlotte-area colocation provider and a regional carrier). There are no downstream networks. - Reverse DNS: none at all. RIPEstat shows zero rDNS delegations for the two largest blocks, and no sampled address resolves.
Notable
- The announced prefixes are registered to several different ARIN organisations — the AS holder itself, Grand Valley Internet (a Colorado name), and Arachnitec, Inc. — that nonetheless share a single admin contact. Distinct org names with one contact behind them is the classic address-aggregation pattern.
- Public route registries also disagree with the origin on several of these prefixes.
- Do not geolocate these addresses to the holder, and do not treat them as consumer or hosting space. With no rDNS and no downstreams, there is no honest evidence of who or what sits behind them. This AS is intentionally left unclassified.
Interesting
- The blocks are genuinely old legacy allocations, and one still carries a 1990s regional-ISP name it long ago outlived — a reminder that a prefix's registered organisation can be a fossil rather than a fact.
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 2026-10-24, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 63 prefixes · 41.73K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 63 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8175- Registry name
- HIGHSPEEDWEB
- Registrant
- High Speed Web/Genesis 2 Networks
- Abuse contact
- noc@highspeedweb.net
- Registered
- 1997-05-12
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS8175
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 17% registered · 1 of 6 announcements 5 other origin
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS8175
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
1 DROP match Announced space overlapping the DROP prefix list.
| Announced | DROP entry | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 216.189.28.0/23 | 216.189.29.0/24 | SBL693269 |
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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