This AS is not currently used to announce prefixes in the global routing table, nor is it used as a visible transit AS.
Advertisements that are fragments of the original RIR allocation (more specifics) originated by this AS.
AS6494 3 More Specifics 3 Total Advertisements COGENT-6494, US
66.28.16.0/24 66.28.0.0/16
66.250.16.0/21 66.250.0.0/16
206.5.12.0/22 206.4.0.0/14
Prefixes added and withdrawn by this origin AS in the past 7 days.
+ 66.28.16.0/24 Announced
+ 66.250.16.0/21 Announced
+ 206.5.12.0/22 Announced
whois: 402613
IANA has recorded AS6494 as originally allocated by
/usr/bin/whois -h jwhois.apnic.netr "AS6494\n
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ASNumber: 6494
ASName: COGENT-6494
ASHandle: AS6494
RegDate: 1996-05-06
Updated: 2012-03-02
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/6494
OrgName: Cogent Communications, LLC
OrgId: COGC
Address: 2450 N Street NW
City: Washington
StateProv: DC
PostalCode: 20037
Country: US
RegDate: 2000-05-30
Updated: 2025-09-23
Comment: Geofeed https://geofeed.cogentco.com/geofeed.csv
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/COGC
ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.cogentco.com:4321
OrgAbuseHandle: COGEN-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Cogent Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: +1-877-875-4311
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@cogentco.com
OrgAbuseRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/COGEN-ARIN
OrgNOCHandle: ZC108-ARIN
OrgNOCName: Cogent Communications
OrgNOCPhone: +1-877-875-4311
OrgNOCEmail: noc@cogentco.com
OrgNOCRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/ZC108-ARIN
OrgTechHandle: IPALL-ARIN
OrgTechName: IP Allocation
OrgTechPhone: +1-877-875-4311
OrgTechEmail: ipalloc@cogentco.com
OrgTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/IPALL-ARIN
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Found a referral to rwhois.cogentco.com:4321.
%rwhois V-1.5:0010b0:00 rwhois.cogentco.com (CGNT rwhoisd 1.2.2)
%error 230 No objects found