AS14490 — NEXAVO

AS14490 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Every address answers with a domain that is the AS number itself.

What it's used for

• A network provider's network in Canada. 256 IPv4 addresses in a single prefix alongside two IPv6 prefixes, with four observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• All three sampled addresses answer as as14490.net, with no per-address label at all.
• That domain is the AS number, registered as a name in its own right.
• The IPv6 blocks are 2602:fa70:30::/44 and 2602:fa70:390::/48, and the second does not sit inside the first.
• The IPv4 block is 23.165.168.0/24, carrying the netname NEXAVO.

Interesting

• Registering a domain named after your AS number is a small piece of operator vanity that turns out to be useful: anybody who reverse-resolves an address gets the network's identity immediately, with no lookup in a registry. It is also the shortest possible answer, since every address returns the same string.
• The two IPv6 blocks come from the same allocation but are announced separately rather than as one covering prefix, which is a choice about how traffic should be steered rather than about how the space was assigned.
• Four neighbours on a network this small says the operator peers rather than simply buying transit.
• Handle, netname and registrant all agree, so nothing here has been renamed.

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

Announced prefixes

• 23.165.168.0/24
• 2602:fa70:30::/44
• 2602:fa70:390::/48

Upstream networks

• AS52025 ParadoxNetworks Limited
• AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS205794 JINZE YANG
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS52025 ParadoxNetworks Limited
• AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS205794 JINZE YANG
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC

Internet exchanges

• Ontario Internet Exchange — Toronto, Canada