AS11323 GETTYIMAGES

GETTYIMAGES is Getty Images (Seattle), Inc., the stock photography and editorial-media licensing company. The famous name checks out against the registry rather than merely sounding right: the ARIN blocks are registered to Getty Images (Seattle), Inc., and the RIPE blocks to MNT-GETTY.

What it's used for

A corporate network for a media business, not a content-delivery platform. RIS sees 7 IPv4 prefixes, 1,792 addresses, no IPv6 and 9 observed neighbours. Five of the prefixes are consecutive /24s out of 216.169.240.0 in ARIN space; the other two, 95.140.57.0/24 and 95.140.59.0/24, are RIPE space registered to Getty's UK entity — a legitimate two-RIR footprint that reflects a real transatlantic company, not scattered brokered inventory. Registrant and origin agree on every prefix.

Notable

Nine neighbours is the one number worth pausing on. It is more than the two or three a pure enterprise stub keeps, and it hints at a company that peers a little — sensible for a business whose product is large image and video files and whose customers are newsrooms and agencies with deadlines. But nine is nowhere near a transit carrier's hundreds, and 1,792 addresses is nowhere near a CDN's footprint. The bulk of Getty's actual image delivery rides commercial CDNs on other people's address space; what remains on the company's own ASN is its corporate and origin infrastructure — contributor upload paths, editorial ingest, internal systems, and the origins the CDN pulls from.

Classify by what the space carries: a media company's own operations, sized like an enterprise and peered like one.