Autonomous system
AS8226 AM-NIC-AS
Unclassified ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Arpinet
isp residential legacy
AM-NIC-AS is not a network-information centre or registry, despite the handle. It belongs to Arpinet LLC, an Armenian internet service provider based in Etchmiadzin that sells fibre broadband and IPTV to households and businesses in Yerevan and the surrounding regions.
What it's used for
- Consumer and small-business broadband access over fibre (GePON/FTTH), plus an IPTV television service.
- All announced space sits in
109.68.120.0/22and neighbouring /23–/24s, with reverse DNS of the generic subscriber formip-109-68-124-1.arpinet.am— one auto-generated PTR per address across the block, which is what an access network's customer pool looks like.
Notable
- Eyeball space. The addresses here terminate on end-user connections in Armenia, primarily in the Armavir and Aragatsotn regions and Yerevan, not on servers or corporate infrastructure.
- A small inventory (under 2,000 addresses) for a consumer ISP, which is normal for an Armenian regional operator with a modest subscriber base and heavy address reuse.
- Name trap: the
AM-NIChandle reads like Armenia's NIC. It is an ordinary commercial ISP; the space must not be treated as registry infrastructure.
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
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Armenian Internet Traffic Exchange | Yerevan, Armenia | 91.218.7.37 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 1 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS201986 | Arpinet LLC | 181 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 1.79K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AM | Armenia | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8226- Registry name
- AM-NIC-AS
- Registrant
- MNT-ARPINET
- Abuse contact
- abuse@arpinet.am
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2025-07-25
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Arminco Ltd
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
as8226:as-all- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- http://www.arminco.com/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS8226
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS8226
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: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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