AS14544 — RETEK

AS14544 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 13,824 addresses and 6 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Two netnames end in the date the block was registered, and one of those dates is from the nineteen-eighties.

What it's used for

• A software company's network. 13,824 addresses across five IPv4 prefixes plus six IPv6 prefixes, with three observed BGP neighbours. First seen in 2000.

Notable

• 81.208.192.0/19 and 130.110.30.0/23 carry the netnames SE-ORACLE-SE-20021008 and SE-ORACLE-SE-19880727, both registered to Oracle Svenska AB.
• Two blocks carry ORACLE-4, registered to Oracle Corporation.
• The lookup for 164.152.96.0/22 failed, so nothing is known about that record.
• The AS handle is RETEK, which matches none of the registrants.
• Fifteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• The trailing digits of those two netnames are dates written year, month, day. One of them predates the commercial internet entirely, and it is still the label on space in use today. Whoever wrote that convention gave every future reader a registration date for free.
• The handle names a company that no longer exists on its own. An AS number is awkward to rename, so acquisitions leave the old name in the routing registry long after it has vanished elsewhere.
• Six IPv6 prefixes under 2603:c050 through 2603:c052, at lengths from /40 to /35, is a modern allocation being carved up while the IPv4 side stays a handful of old blocks.
• The two blocks whose netnames open with SE- belong to a named subsidiary with its own registry contacts, so two of the five IPv4 blocks are filed overseas from the AS. That split is what a global company's address estate looks like from the outside.

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

Announced prefixes

• 81.208.192.0/19
• 130.110.30.0/23
• 164.152.96.0/22
• 207.127.64.0/21
• 207.127.80.0/21
• 2603:c050::/40
• 2603:c050:1000::/39
• 2603:c050:2000::/40
• 2603:c050:2800::/40
• 2603:c051::/36
• 2603:c052::/35

Upstream networks

• AS15958 CETIN Ltd. Belgrade
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS15958 CETIN Ltd. Belgrade
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.