AS14931 — STA-AS

AS14931 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,280 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The registry still records a merged name the company stopped using.

What it's used for

• An insurance group's network. 1,280 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 170.202.208.0/22 and 170.202.200.0/24 both carry the netname STA-170, built from the AS handle and the first part of the address range.
• Both are registered to the combined company name recorded at the time of the merger.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
• The AS first appeared in routing on 2000-08-18.

Interesting

• The registrant preserves a two-company name from a merger, and the AS handle abbreviates it. The group later shortened what it calls itself, but registry records are updated only when somebody has a reason, and an insurer's address blocks give nobody a reason for decades at a time. Reading old corporate structure out of netnames is one of the reliable pleasures of this data.
• The two blocks come from the same range but are not adjacent, so they need separate announcements where a single one would have done if the pieces had lined up.
• Nothing published in reverse DNS, two upstreams and a footprint smaller than a single university department is what a very large insurance company's public internet presence actually looks like. The business runs on private links to agents, brokers and data providers, and only a thin edge faces outward.

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

Announced prefixes

• 170.202.200.0/24
• 170.202.208.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS2856 British Telecommunications Limited
• AS5089 Virgin Media Limited

Adjacent networks

• AS2856 British Telecommunications Limited
• AS5089 Virgin Media Limited