AS16297 — WIIT-IT-AS

AS16297 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 13,312 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One address answers with a bare domain and no host label at all, on a brand that appears nowhere else.

What it's used for

• A managed hosting company's network. Three IPv4 prefixes announced from Italy, no IPv6, thirteen thousand three hundred and twelve addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• All three blocks share one netname scheme: a country code, a predecessor's brand, and a full date. The dates span fifteen years, so the scheme survived the company's rename.
• Four of nine queried addresses answered, on two domains, neither of which is the holder's.
• One answer is a bare domain with no host part: two words run together and a country suffix, which is the name a website would use rather than a machine.
• The other three are the four numbers of the address with hyphens, on a domain that is a preposition and a number run together with a commercial suffix.
• The two older blocks list a network management role ahead of the company; the newest drops it.

Interesting

• A reverse record pointing at a bare domain is a shortcut somebody took once. It resolves, it identifies the customer, and it breaks the convention that a hostname names a machine.
• Three brands across one record, in the netnames, in two reverse zones and in the holder field, is the usual arithmetic of a hosting company that grew by buying smaller ones. Every acquisition brings a domain, and the domains are the last thing to be retired.

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

Announced prefixes

• 185.100.236.0/22
• 217.18.96.0/19
• 217.118.0.0/20

Upstream networks

• AS24961 WIIT AG

Downstream networks

• AS48769 Jacobacci & Partners SpA

Adjacent networks

• AS24961 WIIT AG
• AS48769 Jacobacci & Partners SpA