AS14280 — NETNATION

Network type: hosting

AS14280 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 768 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Five different brand names appear in one company's records, and three of them in a single block.

What it's used for

• A hosting provider's network. 768 IPv4 addresses across three prefixes, one IPv6 prefix, and two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The three blocks carry the netnames NETNATION, HOSTWAY and NETNATION-CA, all registered to the same current owner.
• Within one of those blocks, the sampled addresses answer as www.domainpeople.com, assigned.netnation.com and ldb401.van.ca.siteprotect.com.
• The AS handle is a fourth string, matching the oldest of the netnames rather than the registrant.
• Nine addresses were queried for reverse DNS and three returned a name.

Interesting

• Hosting is a business built by acquisition, and every purchase brings a brand that keeps serving customers who never asked to be moved. The registry shows the current owner; the reverse DNS shows what those customers still see. Neither is wrong.
• The load balancer name is the most informative string here: a device number, a city code, a country code and a fifth brand, in narrowing order. It tells anyone reading a traceroute which building the traffic reached.
• One address answering as assigned rather than as a service is a placeholder set by the provider on space handed to a customer, so that the address resolves before anyone configures it properly.
• Two upstreams and a single IPv6 end-site block is a modest arrangement for a provider holding this many brands, which suggests the merged infrastructure is smaller than the sum of the names.

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

Announced prefixes

• 64.40.105.0/24
• 66.113.192.0/24
• 204.174.223.0/24
• 2606:6a00::/48

Upstream networks

• AS29909 Metro Optic

Downstream networks

• AS7215 Ntirety, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS29909 Metro Optic
• AS7215 Ntirety, Inc.

Internet exchanges

• Seattle Internet Exchange — Seattle, United States