AS260

AS260 is a legacy autonomous system number registered under ARIN, currently held by GTT Americas, LLC and carried in registry and routing data under the holder string GTT-DXB. The ASN has a long lineage: it originated with Xconnect24 Inc., a low-latency IP carrier serving ISPs, enterprises, media, and financial-trading firms; Xconnect24 was absorbed by the Amsterdam-based carrier Custom Connect around 2014, and GTT Communications, Inc. then acquired Custom Connect (announced 2018-01-08), after which the ARIN registrant was updated to GTT Americas, LLC. Today AS260 functions as a small regional ASN concentrated on the UAE/Dubai market (UAE-IX, Equinix DX1) with secondary European presence, rather than an independent backbone. PeeringDB explicitly notes that AS260 is no longer directly peering and redirects peering inquiries to GTT's primary ASN, AS3257. Routing sources agree on a modest footprint: 5 active IPv4 prefixes (about 1,536 addresses) and 2 IPv6 prefixes, with near-complete RIS visibility (327/327 v4, 324/324 v6 peers). CAIDA places it at global AS rank 2133, a clique member with a customer cone of 13 ASNs / 7,183 prefixes / ~3.06M addresses and an AS degree of 19 (11 customers, 5 peers, 3 providers). The ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event dates the allocation to 1989-01-04, last changed 2025-05-07 — first-party RIR facts. No notable public abuse signal was found for AS260 specifically as of June 2026; the only adjacent security record (the 2018 BitCanal transit episode) involved AS3257, not AS260.

Operator

GTT Americas, LLC (current ARIN registrant; holder string GTT-DXB) [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum, RIPEstat as-overview

Country / RIR

US, ARIN (authoritative RIR) [Confirmed] — RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder (authoritative_rir: arin), ARIN RDAP

Allocated

1989-01-04 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event — a first-party RIR date, NOT an IEEE date); last changed 2025-05-07 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/260 (A2/A3/A5 concur; A4's "2023-03-21" is a third-party scrape and not used)

AS name / holder

GTT-DXB — GTT Americas, LLC [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP, RIPEstat as-overview

Org status

GTT Communications is a private company (pre-packaged Chapter 11 filed Sept 2021, emerged reorganized; no longer publicly traded); GTT Americas, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary holding AS260 [Confirmed] — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTT_Communications, gtt.net/about-us

Contacts

abuse@gtt.net; peering@gtt.net; website https://www.gtt.net/ [Confirmed] — RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder, peeringdb.com/asn/260

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found for AS260 specifically as of 2026-06-20 — not in Spamhaus DROP/SBL, CleanTalk, or AbuseIPDB; small footprint, no longer directly peering. The 2018 NANOG BitCanal transit episode involved AS3257 (GTT Communications Inc.), not AS260. A corporate-level UpGuard infostealer signal exists for the GTT parent org, not AS260 [Likely] — spamhaus.org/blocklists, cleantalk.org/blacklists/asn, seclists.org/nanog/2018/Jun/363, upguard.com/security-report/gtt-net

Network & routing

Network type

regional ISP/NSP segment of the GTT group; UAE/Dubai-focused with secondary European presence (upstreams AS3257 GTT, AS15412 FLAG/Reliance, AS200612 Gulf Bridge International) [Confirmed] — peeringdb.com/asn/260, bgp.tools/as/260, bgp.he.net/AS260

Size

5 IPv4 prefixes / ~1,536 IPv4 addresses; 2 IPv6 prefixes (~131,072 /48s); customer cone 13 ASNs, 7,183 prefixes, ~3,056,643 addresses [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status / announced-prefixes, CAIDA AS Rank

Routing/peering

announced, near-complete visibility (327/327 RIS peers v4, 324/324 v6); 22 observed neighbours; CAIDA AS degree total 19 (customer 11, peer 5, provider 3); first seen 2013-07-16, last seen 2026-06-21 [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status. Peering policy: Selective at the GTT group level; AS260 itself "no longer directly peering — see AS3257" (peering@gtt.net)

[Confirmed] — peeringdb.com/asn/260, gtt.net/peering

RPKI

Unknown — rpki-validation was skipped (no prefix supplied to the endpoint); per-prefix ROA status not evaluated in this fetch [Unknown] — RIPEstat (rpki-validation skipped)

Notable usage

originated as Xconnect24 Inc. (low-latency IP connectivity for ISPs, enterprises, media, and financial trading between Frankfurt/London/New York/Chicago); IRR AS-SET AS-XCONNECT24; now GTT's regional ASN at UAE-IX (Dubai) and select European IXes [Confirmed for lineage; Likely for current IX detail] — inflect.com/as/260, bgp.he.net/AS260, telecompaper.com (Custom Connect acquires Xconnect24)

Related ASNs

AS3257 (GTT's primary/active peering ASN; AS260 peering redirected here) [Confirmed] — peeringdb.com/asn/260

Acquisition chain

Xconnect24 Inc. → Custom Connect (~2014) → GTT Communications, Inc. (acquisition announced 2018-01-08) → ARIN registrant GTT Americas, LLC [Confirmed] — telecompaper.com, fibre-systems.com, ARIN RDAP

Analyst note

small legacy GTT Americas ASN with a notable Xconnect24/Custom Connect lineage; live independent peering has been folded into AS3257. Allocation date 1989-01-04 is a first-party ARIN RDAP autnum top-level fact; entities[] POC dates (GIT5-ARIN, GAD46-ARIN) are decoys and were not used. RPKI posture left Unknown (endpoint skipped); A1 rdap fetch timed out but A2/A3 read ARIN RDAP successfully.