AS826

AS826 is an ARIN-registered ASN allocated to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Canada's federal broadcasting and telecommunications regulator, but it is not live: every routing source checked agrees the ASN announces zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes today.

RIPEstat, CAIDA AS Rank, bgp.he.net, and bgp.tools independently confirm the same picture: no observed BGP peers, no upstreams, no customers, and a customer cone limited to the ASN itself with zero prefixes and zero addresses. CAIDA ranks it 79,459th globally, near the bottom, reflecting complete routing inactivity rather than a recent withdrawal.

ARIN's RDAP record shows AS826 was registered on 1994-05-06 under the handle CRTC-GC-AS, with a registrant address at CRTC's former Hull, Quebec headquarters. The listed point-of-contact (ARIN handle FR15-ARIN) is a natural person, and has been marked unvalidated by ARIN since 2011-06-02 — a sign of stale registry contact data, not evidence about CRTC's current organizational status.

CRTC itself is Canada's active telecom and broadcasting regulator, not a network operator, so it has no public peering-policy or network-operations pages and no PeeringDB listing for AS826. That absence is consistent with a government agency holding a legacy ASN for internal use that was never actively announced, or announced once and later withdrawn, rather than with an ISP running live infrastructure.

RPKI validation cannot be assessed for AS826 because RIPEstat's rpki-validation check requires an announced prefix, and this ASN originates none.

Exposure

Zero announced prefixes and zero BGP peers give AS826 no live attack surface; there is no routed traffic to intercept, hijack, or abuse.

Abuse signal

No listing found in AbuseIPDB or AlienVault OTX as of 2026-08-01; Spamhaus's direct query was blocked by an anti-bot 403, so that source is inconclusive rather than a confirmed clean check.

Contact hygiene

The registered POC (ARIN handle FR15-ARIN) has been unvalidated by ARIN since 2011-06-02, indicating stale registry contact data rather than an operational risk.

RPKI

Not assessable — no announced prefixes means no ROAs exist to validate.

Operator

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) (ARIN handles CRTC-GC-AS / CRTC-3; Hull, Quebec, Canada) [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/entity records

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP

Allocated

1994-05-06 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event; top-level "last changed" event is the same date, later time-of-day) [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum

Org status

ARIN RDAP status Active (registry record only — no live routing observed); CRTC is Canada's active federal broadcasting/telecom regulator [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP, crtc.gc.ca

Contacts

no publishable role contact exists on this record — the sole ARIN POC (handle FR15-ARIN, holding the technical, administrative and abuse roles) is a natural person per its RDAP vCard, so its contact detail is correctly withheld; ARIN has flagged that POC unvalidated since 2011-06-02. Registrant organisation is the CRTC, Central Building, 1 Promenade du Portage, Hull, QC K1A 0N2, Canada (org premises)

[Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/826 (POC vCard kind), ARIN RDAP entity CRTC-3

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-08-01 — not in AbuseIPDB or AlienVault OTX; Spamhaus direct query returned an anti-bot 403 (inconclusive, not a confirmed clean check)

Network & routing

Network type

government/regulatory-agency ASN, not a commercial ISP; allocated but not currently announced in the global routing table [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net, bgp.tools

Size

dormant — 0 IPv4 / 0 IPv6 prefixes announced; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses [Confirmed] — RIPEstat, CAIDA AS Rank, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools (2026-08)

Routing/peering

NOT announced — 0 of 328 RIS peers see it in v4, 0 of 322 in v6; CAIDA asnDegree total 0 (customer 0, peer 0, provider 0); no PeeringDB record for AS826 (404) [Confirmed] — RIPEstat, CAIDA AS Rank, peeringdb.com

RPKI

not assessable — no announced prefixes, so no ROAs exist to validate [Confirmed] — RIPEstat rpki-validation requires a prefix

Notable usage

none found; no source describes any historical or current operational use of AS826 specifically [Confirmed absence] — bgp.he.net, bgp.tools

Related ASNs

possible routing association with AS2652 (a Government of Canada / Shared Services Canada-linked ASN) referenced in third-party IRR data; not independently confirmed in this pass [Likely] — bgp.he.net

Analyst note

Encountered as an allocated-but-dormant government ASN; WHOIS/RDAP resolves to CRTC, Canada's telecom/broadcasting regulator, but no prefixes have ever been observed announced across the sources checked. Clean, inactive ASN with stale POC data.