AS15213 — THIGNET

AS15213 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Company initials plus a site code, run together into a word nobody intended.

What it's used for

• An insurance group's network. A single IPv4 /22 announced from the United States, no IPv6, and three observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The netname joins the company's four initials to a headquarters marker and a counter with no separators, producing a string that reads as an unrelated everyday word.
• The AS handle takes the same four initials and appends a type word instead.
• All three sampled addresses answered, each writing the address into the host label with hyphens.
• Those names carry an extra two-letter label between the host part and the domain, which appears in no other field of the record.
• The routing history begins in 2000.

Interesting

• Concatenating abbreviations without separators is how netnames turn into accidents. Nothing here is wrong, and the result still reads as a word rather than a label, which is a good argument for the hyphen that every other convention in this range uses.
• The extra label in the reverse names is a subdomain doing work: it separates one site's addresses from the rest of the company's namespace. It is the only evidence of internal structure this record contains.
• One thousand addresses behind three upstreams is a company that has decided connectivity matters more than address space, which is the usual shape for an insurer running claims systems.

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

Announced prefixes

• 64.57.0.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS10674 Gainesville Regional Utilities
• AS22773 Cox Communications Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS10674 Gainesville Regional Utilities
• AS22773 Cox Communications Inc.

Routing security

• RPKI: 5 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 30 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 5 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-COX-SOUTHEAST, AS-GRU, AS-GRUCOM, AS-WINDSTREAM-CUST, AS-XO-B, AS136759:AS-COSMOPOLITAN1-BD.