AS10494 AAI

AAI is registered to Rodney Grimes, trading as a sole proprietorship out of Portland, Oregon. The AS was assigned in August 1997 and is still held by the same individual — an unusually long single-owner tenure for an ARIN number. Grimes is one of the original co-founders of the FreeBSD project, and the registry's technical contact still points at his personal dnsmgr.net domain.

What it's used for

A small, self-run network estate. RIS sees 2 announced IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses — 65.75.216.0/23 and a more-specific 65.75.216.0/24 announced alongside it — plus 1 IPv6 prefix, 2602:fbea::/36. 1 neighbour is observed.

Notable

The kind here is best read as small-scale hosting / independent operator, not enterprise and certainly not eyeball. The tell is the disproportion between the two address families: 512 IPv4 addresses against an IPv6 /36, which is enough space for over sixty-eight billion /64 subnets. Nobody takes a /36 to number an office. That is the allocation profile of someone who intends to hand out IPv6 subnets to machines, customers or projects — a technically-motivated network run by a networking professional, using the address space as working infrastructure.

The single upstream and single-digit prefix count confirm there is no transit or wholesale role. This is a one-person operation, self-registered, with the AS number and the address space both held directly by the proprietor rather than by a corporate shell — the opposite of the address-broker silhouette that a scattered small network can otherwise suggest.