AS14555 — LIQUIDNETLTD1

AS14555 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 10,240 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Its one reverse name is a sentence broken into DNS labels: hosted, by, and the company.

What it's used for

• A hosting provider's network. 10,240 addresses across three IPv4 prefixes plus one IPv6 prefix, 2607:dec0::/32, with two observed BGP neighbours. First seen in 2007.

Notable

• All three blocks carry the netname LIQUIDNET-HOSTING, registered to LiquidNet US LLC, one of them with a NOC Abuse contact.
• One of nine sampled addresses returned a name: hosted.by.liquidnetlimited.com.
• The blocks are a /20, a /20 and a /21 from three unrelated ranges.

Interesting

• Splitting a phrase across DNS labels turns a hostname into a readable line. The dots do the work of spaces, and anyone who runs a lookup gets a sentence back instead of a machine name. It is a small piece of showmanship in a place nobody looks.
• The same name on many addresses means this is a default rather than a per-machine record. A single answer covering a whole estate keeps mail servers and logging tools satisfied without revealing which customer sits where.
• One netname across every block is a provider that treats its address space as one pool. There are no separate labels for different products or sites, so nothing in the registry hints at internal structure.
• The registrant is named for one country while the reverse-DNS domain is named for a different corporate form. Companies operating in several places register locally and answer globally.

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

Announced prefixes

• 162.210.96.0/21
• 170.10.160.0/20
• 198.23.48.0/20
• 2607:dec0::/32

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 5 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 36 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 36 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-CV, AS-HURRICANE, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-TRANSROUTE-SPEC, AS-UDOS, AS-WINDSTREAM-CUST, AS-XO-B, AS6128:AS-CUSTOMERS.