AS7850 — TN-ASN-CL

Network type: hosting

AS7850 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

TN-ASN-CL is Tarakona Networks, LLC, whose ARIN record gives a suite number at Coffeen Avenue in Sheridan, Wyoming — a registered-agent mailbox address rather than a facility. The AS number is old; the holder is not.

What it's used for

• Almost nothing observable. AS7850 announces a single IPv4 prefix, 198.187.253.0/24, behind a single upstream (InterWorld Communications), with no downstream networks.
• The /24 is a legacy block with a 1993 ARIN registration date, now re-registered to Tarakona. Its ARIN record carries the note that the addresses are non-portable.
• There is no reverse DNS anywhere in the /24, so there is no evidence of what, if anything, it carries.

Notable

• Treat the registrant address with suspicion when geolocating. A Sheridan, Wyoming suite number of this kind is a company-formation mailbox used by very large numbers of unrelated entities; it says nothing about where the network is. The block should not be geolocated to Wyoming on the strength of the whois record.
• The combination of an old AS number and old address space held by a recently-formed LLC at a mailbox, with a minimal footprint and no rDNS, is the shape of address holding rather than of an operating network. There is no honest kind to assign, so it is left unclassified.

Interesting

• The ASN's ARIN registration date of 1997 belongs to whoever first held the number, not to Tarakona, whose own organisation record dates from 2021. A low AS number is not evidence of an early-internet operator — numbers get transferred, and this is one of them.

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

Announced prefixes

• 198.187.253.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS5726 InterWorld Communications, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS5726 InterWorld Communications, Inc.

Internet exchanges

• LINX LON1 — London, United Kingdom
• Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn — Ashburn, United States
• Coresite - Any2 West — Los Angeles, United States
• Any2 California — Los Angeles, United States
• Equinix Internet Exchange San Jose (Bay Area) — San Jose, United States
• Equinix IBX Secaucus — Secaucus, United States