AS674

AS674 is a dormant ASN registered to American Information Network — the entity behind the commercial brand AiNET (ai.net) — that currently announces zero prefixes to the global routing table. Every routing source checked agrees: RIPEstat shows 0 IPv4/0 IPv6 announced prefixes and 0/325 RIS peers seeing any route from it, and bgp.he.net and bgp.tools both confirm it is absent from the current BGP table.

The ASN is an active ARIN registration, not a revoked or reclaimed one. ARIN RDAP's autnum top-level events show a registration date of 1990-05-18 and a last-changed date of 2025-09-08, with status "active." The registrant address on file is 11700 Montgomery Road, Beltsville, MD, matching AiNET's own public office location, and the listed abuse contact is nc@ai.net.

AiNET markets itself as a carrier-neutral fiber, colocation, and cloud-storage provider operating the CyberNAP data center in Beltsville. AS674 has no PeeringDB entry of its own; the organization's only PeeringDB-listed network is its sibling AS6405, which runs a Selective peering policy — that policy cannot be assumed to apply to AS674. One third-party historical source labels AS674 "BBN-DSI - Advanced Info. Technology Services," but this is uncorroborated by any first-party record and is treated here as unverified legacy trivia, not the current operator identity.

With zero announced prefixes, zero observed BGP peers, zero upstreams, and a singleton customer cone (CAIDA AS Rank 79,459), AS674 reads as a held-but-unused allocation within an otherwise active operator's ASN portfolio rather than a network carrying live traffic today.

Operator

American Information Network, doing business as AiNET / AiNET Corp. (ai.net); Beltsville, MD [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/674, https://www.peeringdb.com/org/17128

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/674

Allocated

1990-05-18 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event); last changed 2025-09-08 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/674

Org status

active (ARIN RDAP status field) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/674

Contacts

nc@ai.net; 11700 Montgomery Road, Beltsville, MD 20705, US [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/674

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-07-18 in NANOG archives or general abuse-feed searches

Network & routing

Network type

AiNET is a carrier-neutral fiber/colocation/cloud-storage provider; AS674 itself is not independently listed on PeeringDB and appears legacy/inactive within that portfolio [Likely] — https://www.ai.net/, https://www.ai.net/cybernap/

Size

dormant — 0 IPv4 prefixes / 0 IPv4 addresses, 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status, CAIDA AS Rank, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools (2026-07-18)

Routing/peering

NOT announced — 0/325 v4 and 0/321 v6 RIS peers seeing it; CAIDA degree total 0 (customer 0, peer 0, provider 0); no upstreams or peers in any source [Confirmed]. Sibling AS6405 (same org) runs a Selective peering policy on PeeringDB, not confirmed to apply to AS674

[Unknown for AS674 itself] — https://www.peeringdb.com/net/545

RPKI

not assessable — AS674 announces no prefixes, so there are no ROAs to validate [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net (rpki-validation skipped, no prefix)

Notable usage

none found specific to AS674; AiNET's site claims broad carrier/cloud partnerships but does not tie them to this ASN. A third-party legacy label "BBN-DSI - Advanced Info. Technology Services" is uncorroborated [Unknown] — https://www.cidr-report.org/as4637/autnums.html

Related ASNs

AS6405 (same organization, the org's only PeeringDB-listed network) [Confirmed] — https://www.peeringdb.com/net/545

Analyst note

Canonical RDAP fetch initially timed out; re-fetched live and confirmed the autnum top-level registration date (1990-05-18) against three decoy entity-level dates (1995-04-27, 1998-09-29, 2003-01-21) that were correctly not used.