AS14987 — RETHEMHOSTING

Network type: hosting

AS14987 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One IPv4 block, and enough IPv6 to run a national provider.

What it's used for

• A hosting company's network. 1,024 IPv4 addresses in a single prefix, one IPv6 prefix, and two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The whole IPv4 footprint is 104.152.52.0/22, carrying the netname RETHEM-HOSTING.
• The IPv6 announcement is 2607:8500::/32, the size issued to a provider expected to supply customers of its own.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
• The AS first appeared in routing on 2000-08-18.

Interesting

• The two protocols tell opposite stories about the same business. The IPv4 side is a single block of a thousand addresses, bought at a price that rises every year. The IPv6 side holds enough space to allocate a generous block to millions of customers, and it cost a form.
• That is not extravagance on the operator's part. The smallest sensible IPv6 allocation for anyone intending to assign space to others is exactly this size, so a hosting company with a hundred customers and one with a hundred thousand receive the same thing.
• A netname that simply restates the company name, with no site, no purpose and no sequence number, is a single-block network that has never needed to distinguish one part from another.
• Two upstreams and no published names is the whole visible surface. For a hosting provider, the customers' own domains do the talking.

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

Announced prefixes

• 104.152.52.0/22
• 2607:8500::/32

Upstream networks

• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS23352 DEFT.COM

Adjacent networks

• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS23352 DEFT.COM