AS14793 — API-DIGITAL

AS14793 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Two fields carry a brand name and the third carries the company that ended up with it.

What it's used for

• A managed network services provider's network. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The AS handle and the netname are both API-DIGITAL, a name that appears nowhere in the registrant.
• The whole footprint is 76.164.173.0/24, registered to the holder company.
• The holder record pairs that brand with the company name, so the registry itself shows both.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A brand in the handle and a different company in the registrant is the signature of an acquisition that was recorded where it was cheap to record and skipped where it was not. Registrant fields get updated because billing depends on them; handles and netnames do not, so they keep the older name running.
• Managed service providers serve small operators who do not want their own routing, which makes a single modest block plausible: the addresses here are the provider's own rather than the customers'.
• One upstream is a thin arrangement for a company whose customers are themselves networks.
• Nothing is published in the reverse DNS, so none of the services on the block are named from outside.

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

Announced prefixes

• 76.164.173.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 1 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 7 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 0% of announcements registered; 0 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BTN-CUSTOMERS, AS-DRIX, AS-RCN-CE-PEERS, AS-SIMPLEHELIX, AS-TRANSROUTE-SPEC, AS46506:AS-CUSTOMERS.

Internet exchanges

• Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago — Chicago, United States
• Digital Realty Atlanta Internet Exchange — Atlanta, United States