AS12952 — KNOWLEDGE-PATH-ISP-ASN

AS12952 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 768 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A netname that states its year twice, once loose and once inside the full date.

What it's used for

• The network of an Iraqi internet provider and trading company. 768 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, a single observed BGP neighbour, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The inventory is 185.118.128.0/23 and 185.118.130.0/24.
• The /23's netname is IQ-KNPIT-2015-20150922, containing the year 2015 and then the full date.
• The registry lookup for 185.118.130.0/24 failed, so nothing here describes that block's record.
• Six addresses were sampled and none returned a name.

Interesting

• 2015-20150922 is the year written twice. Somebody had a naming scheme that already included the year, then appended the registry's full date on top of it, and neither the person nor the system noticed the duplication. Netname fields accept anything, so the only quality control is whether the person filling them looks at the result.
• The company name covers information technology and general trading in the same legal entity. That combination is common where an internet provider is one line of business among several, and it means the address record describes a company rather than a network.
• All the space is in 185., the range regional registries issued after IPv4 was exhausted. A provider whose entire inventory sits there started operating after the point at which large allocations stopped being available, which is why 768 addresses is what a national-market ISP gets to work with.
• One neighbour means everything reaches this network through a single upstream, which for a provider is the arrangement most exposed to that upstream's problems.

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

Announced prefixes

• 185.118.128.0/23
• 185.118.130.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS3194 SatGate Company for Trading of Computers Systems and Communications Appliances WLL

Adjacent networks

• AS3194 SatGate Company for Trading of Computers Systems and Communications Appliances WLL