168.2.0.17
Education
Data retrieved at
Network
ASN
IP Range
168.2.0.0 – 168.7.255.255
Company
Rice University
Network
RICENET-2
Using networksdb.io for network lookups.
Hostname
Not available.
Type
Education
Handle
NET-168-2-0-0-1
Registered
1993-08-19
Last Changed
2012-11-08
View raw RDAP
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}
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"ipVersion": "v4",
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"name": "RICENET-2",
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"type": "text/html",
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"title": "Terms of Service"
},
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},
{
"description": [
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],
"title": "Copyright Notice"
}
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"port43": "whois.arin.net",
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"startAddress": "168.2.0.0",
"status": [
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"type": "DIRECT ALLOCATION"
}
Security
No security threats detected for this IP.
VPN
Proxy
Tor
Hosting
Residential Proxy
Bogon
Abuser
Crawler
RPKI
RPKI Origin Validation
RPKI verifies that an IP prefix is legitimately announced by the authorized Autonomous System (ASN) using Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs).
Unknown.
No valid ROA was found for this prefix.
UNKNOWN
Validated Prefix
168.2.0.0/16
Authorized ASN
Not available.
Abuse Contacts
IP Geolocation
Country
United States
Time Zone
America/Chicago
Coordinates
37.751, -97.822
Continent
North America
European Union
No.
Phone prefix
+1
Currency
US Dollar (USD $)