AS14312 — 1-800CONTACTS

AS14312 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,280 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A netname that spells out the punctuation mark it could not use.

What it's used for

• A contact lens retailer's network. 1,280 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 216.194.116.0/24 carries the netname NET-216-194-116-0-SLASH-24.
• 204.16.236.0/22 carries 1800-CONTACTS and names a network group as contact.
• The AS handle begins with a telephone number, since the company's name is one.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Netnames cannot contain a slash, so a generating tool wrote the word instead. The result reads the address out loud, and it turns up often enough across the registry to be a recognisable house style rather than one person's improvisation. It is a small monument to a field that was never designed to hold address notation in the first place.
• A telephone number as an AS handle is a rarity worth noticing. Handles are meant to be short mnemonics for a network, and this one works only because the company sells itself by the number people dial.
• A retailer whose storefront is a website usually puts that site behind a content delivery network, which is why nothing in this range publishes a name and why the address count stays small.
• Two upstreams and one small announcement each is the arrangement of a business whose internet presence is mostly somebody else's infrastructure.

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

Announced prefixes

• 204.16.236.0/22
• 216.194.116.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS13767 DataBank Holdings, Ltd.
• AS15830 Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V.

Adjacent networks

• AS13767 DataBank Holdings, Ltd.
• AS15830 Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V.