AS12798 — VCW-AS Gibraltar

AS12798 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,608 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A betting operator in Gibraltar, still filed under the bookmaker's name from 1999.

What it's used for

• Networking for an online gaming company. 3,584 addresses across three IPv4 prefixes, three observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The inventory is 212.22.224.0/21, 212.22.248.0/22 and 185.82.50.0/23.
• Two blocks carry the netname GI-VICTORCHANDLER-991006; the third is GI-VICTORCHANDLER-20141223.
• All three are registered to BV Gaming Limited, with a Network Team contact.
• The AS handle is VCW-AS Gibraltar.
• Nine addresses were sampled and none returned a name.

Interesting

• 991006 is 6 October 1999 with a two-digit year, and the same holder's 2014 block uses the four-digit form. One organisation's records straddle the registry's format change, which makes this inventory a dated sample of exactly when the convention shifted.
• The netname is a bookmaker's name and the holder is not. Gambling businesses change hands and rebrand constantly, and the registry keeps the name that was on the application — so the address space is the most durable record of who the operation used to be.
• Gibraltar as a country of registration is the whole story of this industry's addressing. A small jurisdiction with a licensing regime attracts operators that need to be somewhere, and their networks end up registered where the licence is rather than where the servers are.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 185.82.50.0/23
• 212.22.224.0/21
• 212.22.232.0/22
• 212.22.248.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS14537 Continent 8 LLC
• AS15830 Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V.
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3491 PCCW Global (HK) Ltd.

Adjacent networks

• AS14537 Continent 8 LLC
• AS15830 Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V.
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3491 PCCW Global (HK) Ltd.