What Is an ASN?
An Autonomous System Number (ASN) identifies a distinct network on the internet -- typically an internet service provider, a cloud platform, a university, or a large company's own network -- that controls how traffic for its block of IP addresses is routed. Every public IP address belongs to exactly one ASN at a time, which makes the ASN a more precise way to identify a network than the company name alone.
What You Can Look Up
You can search either by AS number directly (for example AS15169) or by an IP address, in which case this tool resolves the ASN that address currently belongs to. Results include the network's registered name, its country, and -- where available -- the size of the IP address block it announces.
Why This Matters
ASN data is widely used in network security to distinguish traffic from known cloud/hosting providers versus residential ISPs, in network engineering to understand internet routing, and in research to map how the internet is structured at a large scale.