AS274

AS274 is a legacy autonomous system number registered under ARIN to American Information Network, the Beltsville, Maryland fiber and data-center operator that trades as AiNET. The ASN dates to the earliest era of the public Internet: its ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event is dated 1989-03-10, placing it in the original 16-bit AS block assigned by ARIN. Despite an active ARIN allocation, AS274 is effectively dormant today. Every routing source consulted agrees it announces zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes: RIPEstat reports announced=false, 0 RIS peers seeing it (0/327 v4, 0/322 v6), 0 observed neighbours, and empty first-seen/last-seen routing history; Hurricane Electric notes it has not been visible in the global table since January 2023. The operator's live routing instead runs under AS6405, which is documented on PeeringDB with a selective peering policy. AiNET itself is a substantial regional carrier — it operates one of the Mid-Atlantic's largest privately held fiber networks (10,000+ miles) and the CyberNAP data center in Maryland. CAIDA AS Rank was unavailable (HTTP 502) at query time, so cone and rank figures are unknown. No notable public abuse signal was found as of June 2026 — AS274 is not on Spamhaus ASN-DROP, ipapi.is most-abusive lists, or NANOG abuse threads — consistent with a dormant ASN. One dated governance note: AiNET CEO Deepak Jain was federally indicted in October 2024 for government-contracting fraud (a faked data-center certification), a matter unrelated to network abuse or routing misconduct, with no verdict found in public sources.

Operator

American Information Network, trading as AiNET (ARIN handle AINET-AS274 / org handle AI; Beltsville, MD) [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP, ai.net

Country / RIR

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

Allocated

1989-03-10 (ARIN registry date, NOT an IEEE date — IEEE publishes no ASN registration dates); last changed 2025-09-08 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum top-level events

Org status

private company, active; HQ 11700 Montgomery Road, Beltsville, MD 20705, US; ARIN org record last updated 2025-09-08 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP, ai.net

Contacts

abuse/NOC nc@ai.net; phone +1-888-324-6384; HQ 11700 Montgomery Road, Beltsville, MD 20705 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-06-21 — not on Spamhaus ASN-DROP, ipapi.is most-abusive ASNs, AbuseIPDB (404), or NANOG archives; dormant ASN [Confirmed] — spamhaus.org/drop/asndrop.json. Governance note: AiNET CEO Deepak Jain federally indicted Oct 2024 for government-contracting fraud (faked Tier-4 certification for an SEC contract); unrelated to network abuse; no verdict found

Network & routing

Network type

NSP / regional fiber, cloud, and data-center operator; AS274 is legacy/dormant (AiNET's active routing runs under AS6405) [Confirmed] — bgp.tools/as/274, peeringdb.com/net/545

Size

dormant — 0 IPv4 prefixes / 0 IPv4 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes; 0 observed neighbours [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status (2026-06)

Routing/peering

NOT announced — announced=false; 0 RIS peers seeing it (0/327 v4, 0/322 v6); no upstreams or peers visible in any source [Confirmed]. AiNET's active AS6405 runs a Selective peering policy (no ratio requirement, contract not required, never via route servers)

[Likely for AS6405 policy] — RIPEstat routing-status, peeringdb.com/net/545

RPKI

not assessable — AS274 announces no prefixes, so there are no ROAs to validate; RIPEstat RPKI validation skipped (no prefix) [Unknown]

Notable usage

AiNET operates one of the Mid-Atlantic region's largest privately held fiber networks (10,000+ miles) and the CyberNAP data center in Maryland; AS274 itself is a 1989 legacy allocation with no active routing — ai.net/fiber-network, ai.net/cybernap

Related ASNs

AS6405 (AiNET's active operational network) [Likely] — peeringdb.com/net/545

Analyst note

Encountered as a dormant legacy ASN registered to AiNET; WHOIS resolves to American Information Network, but live routing runs under AS6405, not AS274. RDAP entity-level events (org AI 1995-04-27, contact 1998-09-29) are NOT the allocation date — the autnum top-level registration event (1989-03-10) is. Clean, inactive ASN.