AS6405 — AIN

Network type: hosting

AS6405 announces 8 IPv4 prefixes covering 13,824 addresses and 4 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

AIN is American Information Network, better known as AiNET — a data-centre and fibre operator founded in 1993 and headquartered in Beltsville, Maryland, in the Washington DC metro area.

What it's used for

• Colocation and data-centre services out of AiNET facilities in the Maryland / DC corridor, including customers in the government-adjacent market that clusters there.
• Fibre-optic network and IP connectivity for those hosted customers.
• Announces a mix of its own 205.134.160.0/19 legacy space plus prefixes carried out of upstream ranges, and IPv6.

Notable

This is hosting and colocation address space: the addresses sit in front of racks and customer servers, not households. Geolocation resolves to AiNET's Maryland facilities, and reverse DNS on the network's own infrastructure carries ai.net hostnames — including some old exchange-point naming that reflects how long the network has been peering.

An AS number below 6500 and a /19 of pre-CIDR-era address space mark AiNET as a first-generation commercial internet company, established before the ARIN registry existed in its current form.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 38.41.112.0/22
• 38.100.44.0/22
• 38.100.56.0/22
• 136.175.12.0/22
• 147.160.157.0/24
• 154.54.100.0/22
• 162.242.26.0/24
• 205.134.160.0/19
• 2604:e280:8600::/47
• 2604:e283::/47
• 2604:e28c::/38
• 2607:f308::/32

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC

Downstream networks

• AS54119 WhiteSky Communications, LLC.
• AS20053 The Descartes Systems Group Inc
• AS62646 WireStar, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS54119 WhiteSky Communications, LLC.
• AS20053 The Descartes Systems Group Inc
• AS62646 WireStar, Inc.

Internet exchanges

• The Baltimore Internet Exchange — Baltimore, United States