AS10250 DATAFIVE

DATAFIVE is INet Solutions, a small ARIN-era network operator registered at 14 Wade Road in Latham, New York — the Albany suburbs. The ASN dates from 1997 and its administrative contact sits at the domain datafivetech.com, which is where the DATAFIVE handle comes from.

What it's used for

Serving a small local customer base with connectivity and hosted services. The AS announces 7 IPv4 prefixes totalling 1,792 addresses and no IPv6 — seven separate /24s scattered through 149.19.0.0/16 (149.19.2.0/24, .3.0/24, .4.0/24, .180.0/24, .192.0/24, .193.0/24, .204.0/24).

That scatter is worth a word, because it superficially resembles the shape of an address-leasing operation. It is not one. Every announced /24 is registered to INet Solutions itself in ARIN, not to unrelated third parties — the discriminator for a broker silhouette is who the prefixes are registered to, and here the answer is the holder. This is simply what a 1990s allocation history looks like: discrete /24s handed out one at a time as the company grew, never contiguous, never renumbered.

Notable

Classified business, with low confidence on the current use. Three observed BGP neighbours against under 2,000 addresses puts this firmly in the multi-homed customer bracket rather than any wholesale role, and the scale rules out consumer broadband. Beyond that the evidence runs out: no reverse DNS turned up in the sample, and the company keeps no public profile. Treat addresses here as small-business infrastructure in upstate New York and do not assume more.