Autonomous system
AS8414 Place des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
International Telecommunication Union
government legacy
This AS belongs to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies, headquartered at the Place des Nations in Geneva. Many datasets render the holder as "Place des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland" — that is the ITU's street address, not a company name, lifted out of the registry description field.
What it's used for
- The ITU's own institutional network: staff and secretariat systems, the agency's public web and document services, and connectivity for the conferences, study groups and world radiocommunication meetings it hosts in Geneva.
- Its prefixes are registered
ITU-GVA-and described simply as Geneva, Switzerland*; the bulk of the space is a legacy156.106.0.0/16.
Notable
- An intergovernmental organisation's address space, not a carrier's. The ITU writes the treaties and technical recommendations that telecom operators follow; it does not sell connectivity, and nothing here is subscriber or hosting space.
- Reverse DNS across the block is sparse, which is normal for a network that is mostly staff and internal systems behind a single headquarters.
Interesting
- The ITU is the oldest organisation in the UN system, founded in 1865 as the International Telegraph Union, decades before the internet it now helps to standardise. It also allocates the international radio call-sign prefixes and the E.164 country calling codes.
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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 8 prefixes · 65.79K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CH | Switzerland | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8414- Registry name
- UNSPECIFIED
- Registrant
- AS8414-MNT
- Abuse contact
- Maxim.Aliu@itu.int
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 83% valid · 5 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS8414
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS8414
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: 440 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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