AS14160 — PREMIUMTELECOM

Network type: hosting

AS14160 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,280 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The AS handle says telecom, the company name says hosting.

What it's used for

• A hosting company's network. 1,280 addresses across three IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The AS handle is PREMIUMTELECOM while the registrant on every block is Premium Hosting, Inc.
• All three blocks carry the netname PHN and sit in one run: 208.86.16.0/24, 208.86.18.0/23 and 208.86.20.0/23.
• One small piece of that run is missing, which is why three announcements are needed instead of one.
• Nine addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A handle that names a different line of business is a fossil. Handles are set when the number is issued and rarely changed afterwards, so this one records what the company called itself at the time rather than what it does now. Telecom to hosting is a common direction of travel for a small operator.
• The missing piece in an otherwise contiguous run is the whole reason this network appears three times in the global routing table. If that one block came free, the three could collapse into a single announcement.
• Three-letter netnames repeated across every block tell a reader nothing, which for a hosting company is the safer choice: naming a block after the customers on it invites attention to them.
• Nothing published in reverse DNS is unusual for hosting, where customers often ask for names on their own addresses.

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

Announced prefixes

• 208.86.16.0/24
• 208.86.18.0/23
• 208.86.20.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS12025 Iron Mountain Data Center
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS12025 Iron Mountain Data Center
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC