AS8173 — STARBOARD

AS8173 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

STARBOARD is held by Starboard Networks LLC, a New Orleans, Louisiana company. Despite the low number, this is a reissued ASN: the ARIN organisation was created in April 2024, the ASN registered in May 2024, and its only IPv4 block registered in October 2025.

What it's used for

• Announces a single /22 (plus IPv6) behind one upstream. There is no reverse DNS anywhere in the block, so what the space actually carries is not observable.
• The company presents itself as an IT, professional and network-services contractor rather than as an ISP or a hosting provider.

Notable

• Do not read early-internet pedigree into this number. Everything about the registration is recent; the low AS number was recycled, not inherited.
• With one prefix, one upstream and no rDNS, there is not enough evidence to put this AS in an honest category — it is deliberately left unclassified rather than guessed at.

Interesting

• Its single upstream is a small tunnel/transit provider rather than a regional carrier, which is typical of a network that exists to hold and originate address space rather than to move traffic.

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

Announced prefixes

• 131.143.100.0/22
• 2602:f860::/40

Upstream networks

• AS209533 iFog GmbH

Adjacent networks

• AS209533 iFog GmbH