AS10896 VERIFONE

VERIFONE is Verifone, Inc., the payment-terminal and payment-gateway company whose card readers sit on checkout counters worldwide. This is its corporate autonomous system.

What it's used for

Verifone's own infrastructure. RIS shows 4 announced IPv4 prefixes, all /24s, totalling 1,024 addresses, no IPv6, and 2 observed neighbours.

Every number here says enterprise edge. A thousand addresses cannot host a customer base; two neighbours means the network is dual-homed for resilience and buys transit from both, rather than selling reachability to anyone. Three of the four prefixes come from the legacy 192.30 range and one from 216.253, so the space is old and small, held by the company rather than resold.

For a payments company the interesting inference is what is not here. A thousand routed addresses is nowhere near enough to terminate the traffic of millions of point-of-sale devices; the bulk of that estate lives behind private connectivity, processor networks and cloud providers. What a small public AS like this typically fronts is the internet-facing sliver: gateway endpoints, corporate services, and the handful of hosts that must be reachable from the open internet.

Notable

No reverse DNS was returned on the addresses sampled here, which is a sample rather than a finding and supports no conclusion either way. Nothing in the routing contradicts the registry: this is a first-party corporate network, not hosting, not access, and not transit.