AS14383 — VCS-AS

AS14383 announces 10 IPv4 prefixes covering 18,944 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The AS handle names a company that appears nowhere in the registrations, and the netnames it generated skip a number.

What it's used for

• A regional provider's network. 18,944 addresses across 16 IPv4 prefixes, with a single observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The AS handle is VCS-AS, while every block that resolved is registered to M3COM of Virginia, Inc.
• The netnames are VCS-NET, VCS-NET-2 and VCS-NET-4, with no third.
• One block, 69.31.12.0/23, breaks the pattern entirely: netname NLYR-69-31-12-0-1, registered to Defender Technologies Group, LLC.
• The lookup for 74.200.80.0/21 failed, so nothing is known about that record.
• Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A handle and a registrant that share no letters is an acquisition where the paperwork was updated and the identifier was not. The handle is the older of the two names and the harder one to change, so it becomes an accidental record of what the network used to be.
• The missing third netname was almost certainly registered and later returned or transferred. Sequence numbers are assigned once; a gap means something left.
• A block registered to an unrelated company but announced from here is a customer whose space this network carries. The netname prefix belongs to whichever provider originally assigned it, which makes it a third party's label on a second party's block inside a first party's announcements.
• One neighbour for 16 prefixes leaves no alternative path.

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

Announced prefixes

• 69.31.12.0/23
• 74.200.64.0/20
• 74.200.80.0/21
• 74.200.88.0/22
• 74.200.93.0/24
• 74.200.95.0/24
• 74.204.160.0/20
• 74.204.176.0/21
• 74.204.184.0/23
• 205.234.96.0/20

Upstream networks

• AS701 Verizon Business

Adjacent networks

• AS701 Verizon Business

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 17 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 18% of announcements registered; 15 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-27506-TRANSIT, AS-DVLABS-CUSTOMERS, AS3491:AS-CUSTOMERS-NA.