AS14019 — PARMTECH

AS14019 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 2,048 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The AS handle spells a name that appears nowhere else on the record.

What it's used for

• A software company's network. 2,048 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 198.73.192.0/21 carries the netname NETBLK-PTC-2, registered to the company under its three-letter name.
• The AS handle is PARMTECH, a contraction of a longer name that the organisation field does not use.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
• The AS first appeared in routing on 2000-08-18.

Interesting

• Handles are chosen once and effectively permanent, so they preserve whatever the organisation called itself on the day it registered. The company shortened its name to initials at some point and the handle kept the long form, which makes it a small dated artefact sitting in current records.
• Anyone tracing this network by name will find the initials in one field and the older word in the other, and will have to work out that they are the same organisation. Registries are full of these small discontinuities, and they are the reason attribution is a research task rather than a lookup.
• The netname numbered two says there is a first block filed elsewhere, most likely under a different AS belonging to the same company.
• One block, two upstreams, nothing published: an enterprise network with no public services to name.

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

Announced prefixes

• 198.73.192.0/21

Upstream networks

• AS20141 Quality Technology Services, LLC
• AS15830 Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V.

Adjacent networks

• AS20141 Quality Technology Services, LLC
• AS15830 Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V.

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 2 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 8 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-HURRICANE, AS-QTS-20141, AS-ROGERS:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS-VSNL-IN, AS-XO-B, AS9498:AS-BHARTI-IN.