AS12930 — CARDCOMPLETE-AS

AS12930 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 3,072 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A card payment processor holding a piece of legacy class B space.

What it's used for

• The network of an Austrian credit card issuer and payment processor. 3,072 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, one IPv6 prefix, and two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The inventory is 128.65.128.0/21 and 185.102.228.0/22, plus 2a03:8a80::/32.
• The netnames are AT-CARDCOMPLETE-20111006 and AT-CARDCOMPLETE-20150602.
• Both are registered to the company's IT department.
• First observed in the routing archive in August 2000.
• Six addresses were sampled and none returned a name.

Interesting

• 128.65 sits at the very start of the old class B range, space handed out before the current registry system existed. The netname dates it to 2011, which is when the record was created rather than when the addresses were first issued. Old space regularly carries young paperwork, and reading the date as an age gets it backwards.
• The other block is a 185. prefix, from the last IPv4 range regional registries had to give out. One company holding both is holding the two ends of IPv4 history at once: space from when nobody counted, and space from after it ran out.
• Two neighbours and no reverse names at all for a payment processor. Card transaction networks are reached over private links by merchants and banks, not over the public internet, so there is nothing here that benefits from being findable.
• The company's name is lowercase in its own registry records, and it survives that way through every system that has handled it since.

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

Announced prefixes

• 128.65.128.0/21
• 185.102.228.0/22
• 2a03:8a80::/32

Upstream networks

• AS43957 WNT Telecommunication GmbH
• AS8412 T-Mobile Austria GmbH

Adjacent networks

• AS43957 WNT Telecommunication GmbH
• AS8412 T-Mobile Austria GmbH