AS541

AS541 is a legacy autonomous system number registered under ARIN with the handle IGAUTON, registrant "Intelligenetics Inc." The ARIN RDAP autnum object's top-level events array records a registration event dated 1989-09-19 and a last-changed event dated 1991-01-10 — these are first-party RIR registry dates, distinct from the nested entity-level "last changed" dates on the registrant (INTELL-217, 2012-10-10) and the technical/abuse contact (EL30-ARIN, 2025-08-14), which are contact-record artifacts, not the ASN's own allocation date. The registrant name traces most plausibly to Intelligenetics Inc., a 1980 Stanford SUMEX-AIM spinout that renamed itself IntelliCorp in 1984 while keeping "IntelliGenetics" as its biotechnology-software business unit name; no evidence surfaced that this entity operates as an active Internet network operator today. Every routing data source consulted — RIPEstat and CAIDA — agrees AS541 currently announces zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes, has never been observed by RIS or CAIDA's topology (seen=false), and its customer cone is a singleton. No PeeringDB entry exists (404) and no operator-run website or peering policy was located. No notable public abuse signal was found as of 2026-07-11.

Operator / registrant

Intelligenetics Inc. (AS handle/name: IGAUTON), 700 East El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040, US [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/541

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/541

Allocated

1989-09-19 (ARIN RDAP autnum TOP-LEVEL registration event); last changed 1991-01-10 (top-level last-changed event) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/541 (nested entity-level dates on registrant INTELL-217 and contact EL30-ARIN are decoys, not used)

Org status

RIR record status is "active" (allocation itself is not revoked); underlying registrant company appears defunct/absorbed — no evidence of independent operation today [Likely] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/541, https://www.company-histories.com/IntelliCorp-Inc-Company-History.html

Contacts

registrant/technical contact is an individual, Eliot Lear (ARIN handle EL30-ARIN, status validated), located in Wetzikon, Switzerland; contactable through the ARIN RDAP record (personal contact details omitted here) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/541

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-07-11 — not in Spamhaus DROP/ASN-DROP search results, AbuseIPDB, abuse.ch, or NANOG archives (live Spamhaus/AbuseIPDB feeds not directly queried; treated as absence-of-evidence, not confirmed-clean)

Network & routing

Network type

Unknown — no official operator website, network description, or IX/peering page was found for this registrant [Unknown]

Size

dormant — 0 IPv4 prefixes / 0 IPv4 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/routing-status/data.json?resource=541, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/541

Routing/peering

NOT announced — 0 of 325 RIS peers seeing it in IPv4, 0 of 322 in IPv6; CAIDA degree total 0 (customer 0, peer 0, provider 0); no PeeringDB entry (404) [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/routing-status/data.json?resource=541, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/541

RPKI

not assessable — AS541 announces no prefixes, so there are no ROAs to validate against; RIPEstat rpki-validation was skipped (no prefix supplied) [Unknown] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/rpki-validation/data.json?resource=541

Notable usage

registrant name traces to Intelligenetics Inc., a 1980 Stanford SUMEX-AIM spinout that renamed itself IntelliCorp in 1984, retaining "IntelliGenetics" as its biotech-software unit name; no evidence of the entity operating an active network today. A present-day intelligenetics.com domain belongs to an unrelated, unconnected Atlanta DNA-testing lab [Likely] — https://www.company-histories.com/IntelliCorp-Inc-Company-History.html, https://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/intellicorp-inc-history/

Analyst note

Registered-but-unrouted legacy ASN with no live operator presence found; RIR allocated_date is a first-party registry fact and is recorded (not nulled). A low-quality third-party ASN directory (asnlist.com) surfaced near-identical, evidently auto-generated "bioinformatics/pharmaceutical clientele" boilerplate across queries — excluded as unreliable filler rather than cited as fact.