AS14911 — TMGAS - Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.

AS14911 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One netname is the carrier's filing system, the other is just the brand.

What it's used for

• A sporting goods manufacturer's network. 512 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 8.25.43.0/24 carries LVLT-TMG-59-8-25-43: a carrier prefix, the customer's initials, a customer number and the block itself.
• 192.173.5.0/24 carries TAYLORMADE, the brand with the space removed and nothing else.
• Both blocks are registered to the company, despite one being labelled in the carrier's style.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• The two records show the same company described by a machine and by a person. The carrier's string is complete enough to reconstruct the whole arrangement from the netname alone; the hand-written one is the word a customer would recognise and nothing a network operator could act on. Both are in the same registry, for the same holder.
• The older block comes from space issued in the era when a company could ask for a range and get it. The newer one came through a carrier, which is how everyone has obtained addresses since.
• A brand this well known publishing nothing in reverse DNS is unremarkable but worth noting: the consumer-facing side of the business lives with a hosting provider, and what is announced here is the corporate network behind it.
• Two upstreams over 512 addresses is the standard shape for a company that needs to stay reachable and has nothing to prove about it.

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

Announced prefixes

• 8.25.43.0/24
• 192.173.5.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS20001 Charter Communications Inc
• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS20001 Charter Communications Inc
• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 2 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 3 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-CHTR-SYNC, AS-GRANDE, AS-HURRICANE, AS-RR-BIZ.