AS13298 — SOS-KINDERDORF-AS

AS13298 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A children's charity with its own autonomous system and a single block of 256 addresses.

What it's used for

• The network of an international children's welfare organisation. 256 addresses in the single prefix 195.190.143.0/24, one observed BGP neighbour, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The netname is SOS-KD-ORG, an abbreviation of the abbreviation.
• The block lists the organisation and an abuse role, and nothing else.
• First observed in the routing archive in January 2003.

Interesting

• Charities almost never appear in a list of autonomous systems, because running one costs money and attention that a donation-funded organisation has to justify. What makes it worthwhile is address space that survives changing provider, which matters to an organisation whose systems are reached from offices in many countries.
• The netname compresses a name that was already compressed. SOS stands in for the full name, KD for the second word, and ORG marks the kind of body it is, so three layers of shortening sit in nine characters. This is what registry labels looked like when the field was assumed to be short.
• One prefix and one neighbour is the smallest independent presence available. Whatever else this organisation runs sits on somebody else's addresses.

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

Announced prefixes

• 195.190.143.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS8437 Hutchison Drei Austria GmbH

Adjacent networks

• AS8437 Hutchison Drei Austria GmbH