Autonomous system
AS984 OWS-NETWORK
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Octopus Web Solution Inc (OWS Networks)
hosting legacy
A US internet and hosting provider (OWS-NETWORK) operated by Octopus Web Solution Inc, based in Spokane, Washington.
What it's used for
- Internet access, IP transit, and data-center/hosting services over fiber and IP networks.
Notable
- A commercial hosting/ISP network, holding a sizeable block of address space.
- A low, three-digit AS number from the internet's early sequential allocations, now reassigned to its current holder.
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 3 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 2001:de8:4::984:1 |
| BroadBand Internet eXchange Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 101.203.90.175 |
| Taipei Internet Exchange (TPIX) | Taipei, Taiwan | 203.163.222.151 |
Transit providers
19 upstream, 21 downstream and 55 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 174 prefixes · 120K addresses IPv6 24 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 198 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS984- Registry name
- OWS-NETWORK
- Registrant
- OCTOPUS WEB SOLUTION INC
- Abuse contact
- support@ows-networks.com
- Registered
- 2022-06-27
- Last changed
- 2025-12-10
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 81% valid · 281 valid, 60 with no ROA 8 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 134 authorising AS984
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.1% registered · 346 of 349 announcements
- Route objects
- 531 naming AS984
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.
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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