AS262

AS262 is a legacy autonomous system number registered under ARIN and held today by NTT America, Inc. Its registry name field still reads VERIO — a remnant of Verio, Inc., the aggressive late-1990s ISP consolidator (founded 1996, acquired by NTT Communications in 2000 for roughly $5 billion) whose backbone was folded into NTT America by the end of 2005. The triage point for AS262 is that it is now a minimal internal stub rather than the major carrier the VERIO name implies: every routing source consulted (RIPEstat, CAIDA AS Rank, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools) agrees it originates just one IPv4 prefix (208.65.254.0/24, 256 addresses) and one IPv6 prefix (2001:418:c06::/48), with no registered downstream customers. NTT's real Tier-1 global IP backbone runs under AS2914, and NTT's own IRR marks the AS-VERIO routing set obsolete in favor of AS2914:AS-GLOBAL. CAIDA ranks AS262 at #78,717 with a singleton customer cone (1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses) — anomalously, it carries a Tier-1 clique-member flag from the Verio legacy while its customer/peer/provider degrees all read zero, reflecting an inference graph that no longer sees active relationships. The IPv4 /24 is visible to only 41 of 327 RIS peers; the IPv6 /48 has full visibility. ARIN's RDAP autnum top-level registration event dates the allocation to 2000-07-11 (last changed 2016-07-15). No notable public abuse signal was found as of June 2026 — not in Spamhaus ASN-DROP, ipapi.is, or current threat-intel reporting; only dated early-2000s Verio-era hosting complaints survive in NANOG/Usenet archives, predating NTT's integration.

Operator

NTT America, Inc. (ARIN registry name VERIO — legacy label from Verio, Inc., acquired by NTT Communications in 2000) [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/262, whois.arin.net/rest/asn/AS262, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verio

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum; IANA 16-bit AS Numbers Registry block 1–1876

Allocated

2000-07-11 (ARIN RDAP autnum TOP-LEVEL registration event — first-party RIR fact, NOT an IEEE date); last changed 2016-07-15 [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/262

Org status

active. NTT America, Inc. is a wholly-owned US subsidiary of NTT Group (Tokyo); the GIN backbone operates under the NTT DATA brand. ARIN registered address: 8300 E Maplewood Ave, Suite 400, Greenwood Village, CO 80111, US [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/262, gin.ntt.net/about

Contacts

peering@ntt.net; abuse@ntt.net; NOC/support ce-support@gin.ntt.net; phone +1-877-688-6625 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum entities (vcardArray)

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-06-20 — not on Spamhaus ASN-DROP, not in ipapi.is most-abusive-ASN tracking, no current Talos/Recorded Future/Krebs reporting; only dated early-2000s Verio-era hosting complaints (NANOG/Usenet 2002) predating NTT integration. Direct Spamhaus JSON/AbuseIPDB API verification not performed

Network & routing

Network type

legacy/internal stub within NTT America; NTT's active Tier-1 global IP backbone runs under AS2914. AS262 announces only a single /24 + single /48 [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS262, gin.ntt.net/about, ipinfo.io/AS262

Size

1 IPv4 prefix (208.65.254.0/24, 256 addresses) and 1 IPv6 prefix (2001:418:c06::/48); customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 1 prefix, 256 addresses [Confirmed] — RIPEstat announced-prefixes/routing-status, CAIDA AS Rank (2026-06)

Routing/peering

announced (is_announced=true); v4 /24 seen by 41/327 RIS peers, v6 /48 full visibility (324/324); 2 observed neighbours per RIPEstat but identities not returned in canonical fetch; CAIDA asnDegree total/customer/peer/provider all 0 (anomalous; reflects low activity), CAIDA clique-member flag true (Verio legacy) [Confirmed for counts]. Upstreams/peers identities

[Unknown] — not resolved in canonical fetch

RPKI

[Unknown] — no prefix supplied to rpki-validation in the canonical fetch; status for 208.65.254.0/24 and 2001:418:c06::/48 not checked

Notable usage

legacy ASN inherited from Verio, Inc. (built by acquiring 200+ smaller ISPs; NASDAQ-listed, acquired by NTT in 2000 for ~$5B; backbone migrated to NTT America by end-2005). The AS-VERIO routing set (NTTCOM::as-verio) is marked obsolete — "use AS2914:AS-GLOBAL." Today AS262 is a minimal stub; NTT's primary routing is AS2914

[Confirmed] — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verio, bgp.he.net/AS262, bgp.tools/as-set/NTTCOM::as-verio

Related ASNs

AS2914 (NTT's active Tier-1 global IP backbone; AS-VERIO superseded by AS2914:AS-GLOBAL) [Confirmed] — bgp.tools/as-set/NTTCOM::as-verio, gin.ntt.net

Analyst note

encountered as a legacy stub ASN whose registry name (VERIO) overstates current scope; live NTT routing is under AS2914, not AS262. Clean profile, minimal footprint.