AS16353 — MERULA UK Routing

Network type: hosting

AS16353 announces 13 IPv4 prefixes covering 22,016 addresses and 4 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Five companies' blocks, one netname convention, and one reverse name that forgot to include a domain.

What it's used for

• A provider's network. Twenty-five prefixes announced from the United Kingdom, four of them IPv6, twenty-two thousand and sixteen addresses, through fifty observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The sampled blocks are registered to five different companies. Six belong to the holder; the rest belong to a connectivity firm, a communications company, a regional subsidiary and a southern operator.
• Every one of them uses the same netname scheme: a country code, the registrant's own brand, and a full date. The convention belongs to the registry, not to any of the five.
• Four blocks share one date, which makes them a single allocation recorded four times.
• Eight of eighteen queried addresses answered, in four different styles across four domains. One uses hyphens between the address numbers, one keeps the dots, one drops the last number entirely, and one is a word rather than an address.
• One answer has no domain at all: two letters, a hyphen, and the four numbers of the address, ending there. It is a hostname with nothing to attach it to.
• Two of the domains belong to the holder. One belongs to a third-party reverse-DNS service whose name says so.

Interesting

• Carrying other companies' address space is how a small provider stays useful after its own allocations run out. The netname scheme survives every acquisition because the registry form asks the same question.

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

Announced prefixes

• 83.167.191.0/24
• 85.158.152.0/21
• 85.236.144.0/21
• 92.62.0.0/20
• 185.25.188.0/22
• 185.43.29.0/24
• 185.45.224.0/23
• 185.45.226.0/24
• 185.78.88.0/22
• 185.136.72.0/24
• 185.176.172.0/22
• 185.237.88.0/22
• 217.146.96.0/19
• 2a00:1940::/32
• 2a03:5420::/32
• 2a0a:3380::/29
• 2a0c:1480::/29

Upstream networks

• AS8801 Rocket Fibre Ltd
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC

Downstream networks

• AS60193 Wurzel Ltd
• AS198353 Mimeo Limited

Adjacent networks

• AS8801 Rocket Fibre Ltd
• AS60193 Wurzel Ltd
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS198353 Mimeo Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC

Internet exchanges

• LINX LON1 — London, United Kingdom
• London Network Access Point — London, United Kingdom
• LINX Manchester — Manchester, United Kingdom