72.246.0.0

  • Reverse DNS not confirmed
  • Not on blocklists
Network
AKAMAI-ARIN-1
Held by
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Range
72.246.0.0 - 72.247.255.255
CIDR
72.246.0.0/15
Type
DIRECT ALLOCATION
Registered on
Last updated
Status
  • active
Report abuse to
abuse@akamai.com
Checked

Reverse DNS

Names
Forward check
Not confirmeda72-246-0-0.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com has no address

Network

Announced by
AS20940 Akamai International B.V.
Route
72.246.0.0/15, carried by 3,053 of bgp.tools' BGP feeds
Kind
Content
Country
NL
Tagged
Content Delivery Network, Anycast, Tranco 10k Host

Upstreams and peers

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  • AS8151 Telmex (Uninet)2,746 paths
  • AS1299 Arelion (fka. Telia Carrier)2,743 paths
  • AS3356 Lumen (Level 3)2,338 paths
  • AS6453 TATA Communications (America) Inc2,205 paths
  • AS2914 NTT America, Inc.2,173 paths
  • AS9498 Bharti Airtel Ltd.2,032 paths
  • AS4637 Telstra International Limited1,948 paths
  • AS7474 SingTel Optus Pty Ltd1,886 paths
  • AS2516 KDDI Corporation1,884 paths
  • AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC1,775 paths
  • AS6762 Telecom Italia Sparkle (Seabone)1,739 paths

And 255 more

Downstreams

  • AS16625 Akamai Technologies, Inc.13,932 paths
  • AS36183 Akamai Technologies (Apple Private Relay)8,486 paths
  • AS63949 Akamai (Linode)5,315 paths
  • AS32787 Akamai (Prolexic)1,864 paths
  • AS21342 Akamai International B.V.1,448 paths
  • AS33905 Akamai International B.V.1,366 paths
  • AS35994 Akamai Technologies, Inc.1,012 paths
  • AS34164 Akamai International B.V.942 paths
  • AS24319 Akamai Technologies Tokyo ASN780 paths
  • AS200005 Akamai International B.V.558 paths
  • AS26008 Akamai Technologies, Inc.350 paths
  • AS12222 Akamai Technologies, Inc.318 paths

And 2 more

As the route collectors of RIPEstat see them

Routes AS20940 announces

3,942 IPv4 prefixes covering 13,880,064 addresses, and 762 IPv6 prefixes

IPv4

And 3,892 more

IPv6

And 712 more

From bgp.tools

Location

Map © OpenStreetMap contributors
Location
United States
Accuracy
Within 1,000 km

Location from GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind

Blocklists

  • Spamhaus ZEN Not listed
  • SpamCop Not listed
  • Mailspike Not listed
  • PSBL Not listed

Abuse reports

Reports
None in the last year
Used for
Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit
Provider
Akamai Technologies, Inc.

From AbuseIPDB

WHOIS

#
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/tou/
#
# If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
# https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/inaccuracy_reporting/
#
# Copyright 1997-2026, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd.
#


NetRange:       72.246.0.0 - 72.247.255.255
CIDR:           72.246.0.0/15
NetName:        AKAMAI-ARIN-1
NetHandle:      NET-72-246-0-0-1
Parent:         NET72 (NET-72-0-0-0-0)
NetType:        Direct Allocation
OriginAS:       
Organization:   Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAMAI)
RegDate:        2005-03-14
Updated:        2017-12-22
Ref:            https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/72.246.0.0



OrgName:        Akamai Technologies, Inc.
OrgId:          AKAMAI
Address:        145 Broadway
City:           Cambridge
StateProv:      MA
PostalCode:     02142
Country:        US
RegDate:        1999-01-21
Updated:        2023-10-24
Ref:            https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/AKAMAI


OrgAbuseHandle: NUS-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   NOC United States
OrgAbusePhone:  +1-617-444-2535 
OrgAbuseEmail:  abuse@akamai.com
OrgAbuseRef:    https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/NUS-ARIN

OrgTechHandle: SJS98-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Schecter, Steven Jay
OrgTechPhone:  +1-617-274-7134 
OrgTechEmail:  ip-admin@akamai.com
OrgTechRef:    https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/SJS98-ARIN

OrgTechHandle: IPADM11-ARIN
OrgTechName:   ipadmin
OrgTechPhone:  +1-617-444-0017 
OrgTechEmail:  ip-admin@akamai.com
OrgTechRef:    https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/IPADM11-ARIN


#
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/tou/
#
# If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
# https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/inaccuracy_reporting/
#
# Copyright 1997-2026, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd.
#

RDAP

From https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/72.246.0.0

Show the RDAP record
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