AS16188 — PUNKT

AS16188 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,352 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Three sampled addresses all answer with the single word unassigned.

What it's used for

• A hosting provider. Two IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 block announced from Germany, four thousand three hundred and fifty-two addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• Three of six queried addresses answered, and every answer is the same bare word declaring the address unassigned, with no domain attached to it at all.
• A hostname with no dots in it is unusual enough to be worth stating plainly: the zone is returning a label rather than a fully qualified name.
• The company's own name is a domain name, the word for a dot followed by the national suffix, so the brand is a joke about the notation it is written in.
• One netname is a country code, an unrelated brand and a date from the year two thousand. The other names a systems planning company and is registered to that company, not to the holder.
• The first block lists the holder and its own hostmaster role; the second lists only an abuse role.

Interesting

• Three different placeholder words for unused space turn up across this range, and this is the tersest. Each of them tells a scanner the same thing: something answered, but nothing is meant to be there.
• A provider that announces a customer's block under the customer's own registration is doing the normal thing. The AS number is the provider's, the addresses are not, and only the record shows the seam.

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

Announced prefixes

• 194.15.190.0/24
• 217.29.32.0/20
• 2a00:b580::/32

Upstream networks

• AS12306 Plus.line AG

Adjacent networks

• AS12306 Plus.line AG