A deprecated IANA entry — no service name, no assignee, nothing standard runs here.
IANA's registry carries a single entry for 1028 reading "Deprecated", dated 2004-02, with no service name and no owner. That means an earlier assignment was withdrawn and the port was not reissued. In practice it shows up on old Windows hosts as one more dynamically assigned RPC endpoint from the pre-Vista 1025-5000 range, and on anything else as a program that simply picked a free low port.
Expose with care
Nothing is registered here, so the port tells you nothing — treat an open 1028 as an unidentified service and find the process before exposing it.
$ sudo lsof -nP -iTCP:1028 -sTCP:LISTENSeen this on your network? Beige Box scans your Wi-Fi and shows every open port on every device — and its Ports tool links straight back here.
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