AS16223 — COLUMBUS-PE-TE

AS16223 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 69,888 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Three brands: one in the handle, one in the netnames, and two more in the reverse names.

What it's used for

• A regional provider's network. Four prefixes announced from Ukraine, including one IPv6 prefix, sixty-nine thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight addresses, through twenty-three observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The AS handle is a three-part hyphenated string: an explorer's name, then two letters, then two more. None of the three parts appears in the holder field.
• All three IPv4 netnames use one scheme instead: a country code, the holder's brand, and a full date. The dates run across thirteen years.
• The largest block holds sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six addresses on its own, which is most of the network in a single registration.
• Four of nine queried addresses answered, on two different domains. One is the word for a host, the address with hyphens, and a domain matching none of the other names in the record.
• The other three put the address first, then the same two letters that end the handle, then a domain that repeats those letters as its own label under the country's namespace.

Interesting

• A two-letter label that turns up in the handle, in the hostname and again in the domain is almost always a place: the region the network was built in, abbreviated once and then reused everywhere.
• Sixty-nine thousand addresses behind twenty-three neighbours is a provider that grew by peering rather than by buying more transit, which is the usual path for a network anchored in one region.

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

Announced prefixes

• 5.58.0.0/16
• 185.53.79.0/24
• 217.196.160.0/20
• 2a00:1210:fffd::/48

Upstream networks

• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS3326 PRIVATE JOINT STOCK COMPANY "DATAGROUP"
• AS35320 Eurotranstelecom Ltd
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3303 Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS49559 A-Systems Sp. z o.o.

Downstream networks

• AS44318 KOLUMBUS PE
• AS216012 MAXNET TELECOM, LTD
• AS59652 GOLFSTREAM.NET LLC
• AS208979 Canada Network Group LLC
• AS50303 Ternopil Municipal Public Organization "Ternopil Education Communication Center"

Adjacent networks

• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS3326 PRIVATE JOINT STOCK COMPANY "DATAGROUP"
• AS44318 KOLUMBUS PE
• AS35320 Eurotranstelecom Ltd
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS216012 MAXNET TELECOM, LTD
• AS59652 GOLFSTREAM.NET LLC
• AS3303 Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS49559 A-Systems Sp. z o.o.
• AS208979 Canada Network Group LLC
• AS50303 Ternopil Municipal Public Organization "Ternopil Education Communication Center"

Internet exchanges

• Giganet Internet Exchange — Kyiv, Ukraine