AS265

AS265 is a legacy autonomous system number registered under ARIN to "Advanced Info. Technology Servcies" — the misspelling of "Services" is reproduced verbatim from the ARIN record (handle AITS-2), at 4601 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 720, Arlington, VA. With an ARIN registration event of February 1989, it sits among the earliest pre-commercial Internet allocations, well inside the first 1,000 of the 16-bit AS number space. The triage point for AS265 is that it is fully dormant today: every routing source consulted (RIPEstat as-overview, routing-status, announced-prefixes, plus bgp.he.net) agrees it originates zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes, is seen by 0 of 327 RIS peers on v4 and 0 of 322 on v6, has zero observed BGP neighbours, and announces no IP space. CAIDA AS Rank could not be queried (the api.asrank.caida.org endpoint returned HTTP 502), so rank and customer-cone figures are unknown rather than zero. RPKI posture is not assessable because there are no active originations and therefore no ROAs. The current technical/abuse contact is Robert P. Depesa (RPD2-ARIN, Beltsville, MD), whose POC record was last validated 2025-09-30 — the registration is being maintained even though no routing is active. The contact's email domain, blomp.com, is a consumer cloud-storage service at the same Beltsville address and shows no operational link to network activity. No notable public abuse signal was found as of June 2026 — not in the brianhama community bad-ASN list, NANOG archives, or any reachable feed (Spamhaus, AbuseIPDB, and CleanTalk all returned 403/404 and could not be queried directly).

Operator

Advanced Info. Technology Services (ARIN handle AITS-2; "Servcies" typo is in the source record); registrant org address 4601 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 720, Arlington, VA 22203, US [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/265, whois.arin.net/rest/asn/AS265

Country / RIR

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

Allocated

1989-02-01 (ARIN RDAP autnum TOP-LEVEL registration event for handle AS265 — a first-party RIR fact, NOT an IEEE date); ASN record last changed 1994-06-03 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum top-level events[]

AS name / network name

DSI-WR-16 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/265, ipinfo.io/AS265

Org status

dormant/inactive network; ARIN record status is "active" (the registration exists and the POC was validated 2025-09-30), but no routing activity is observed; registrant address (Arlington, VA) differs from the technical-contact address (Beltsville, MD)

[Likely] — ARIN RDAP autnum/265, ipinfo.io/AS265

Contacts

technical/abuse contact Robert P. Depesa (RPD2-ARIN), 11700 Montgomery Rd, Beltsville, MD 20705 (corporate address); the POC's personal mailbox and direct line are withheld here — consult the ARIN RDAP record directly [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/265, RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder

Website

none for the ASN operator; blomp.com (the contact's email domain) is a separate consumer cloud-storage service at the same Beltsville address [Likely] — blomp.com, ipinfo.io/AS265

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-06-21 — not listed in the brianhama/bad-asn-list community CSV, no NANOG archive mentions, no BGP-hijack/botnet/phishing associations; Spamhaus, AbuseIPDB, and CleanTalk lookups returned 403/404 and could not be queried directly, but no secondary search citations surfaced either

Network & routing

Network type

classified "ISP, Business or Hosting" by IPinfo, but no current routing activity — the AS is effectively dormant [Likely] — ipinfo.io/AS265, bgp.he.net/AS265

Size

dormant — 0 IPv4 prefixes / 0 IPv4 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes / 0 IPv6 addresses; announced=false [Confirmed] — RIPEstat as-overview / routing-status / announced-prefixes, bgp.he.net/AS265

Routing/peering

NOT announced — 0 RIS peers seeing it (0/327 v4, 0/322 v6); 0 observed BGP neighbours; no upstreams or peers visible in any source [Confirmed]. No PeeringDB record (404 at peeringdb.com/asn/265); no peering policy published

[Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status, bgp.he.net/AS265, peeringdb.com/asn/265

RPKI

not assessable — AS265 announces no prefixes, so there are no ROAs to validate; bgp.he.net shows 0 RPKI records [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS265, RIPEstat routing-status

AS rank / customer cone

Unknown — CAIDA AS Rank API returned HTTP 502; rank, cone ASN count, and cone prefix count could not be retrieved [Unknown] — api.asrank.caida.org (502 as of 2026-06-21)

Notable usage

none observable — AS265 is inactive/dormant with no announced prefixes and no observable BGP activity; an early (February 1989) pre-commercial-era allocation. No operator "about"/company page found for the registrant org [Confirmed for dormancy; Unknown for usage] — ipinfo.io/AS265, bgp.he.net/AS265

Analyst note

Encountered as a dormant early-vintage ARIN ASN. WHOIS resolves to Advanced Info. Technology Services, but there is no live routing, no PeeringDB record, and no operator web presence. Clean, inactive ASN.