AS11438 LEMANS-1

LEMANS-1 is held by LeMans Corporation of Janesville, Wisconsin — the powersports-parts distributor better known by its brands Parts Unlimited and Drag Specialties. It is a single-prefix corporate network.

What it's used for

RIS shows one announced IPv4 prefix, 198.140.181.0/24, 256 addresses, no IPv6, and two observed neighbours. The prefix is registered in ARIN directly to LeMans Corporation under the handle LEMANS-CORPORATION, so holder, registrant and originator are one and the same. There is no third-party registrant, no multi-RIR scatter, and nothing to suggest the space is leased to or from anyone.

Two adjacencies is the tell for the role: this AS takes transit from two providers and sells nothing on. That is the standard multihomed-enterprise arrangement — a company obtains an AS number and a provider-independent /24 so that its own internet edge (site VPNs, dealer-facing ordering systems, mail, published web services) can survive the loss of a single carrier without renumbering. LeMans distributes aftermarket parts to thousands of dealerships worldwide, and a B2B distributor's dealer portal and EDI links are exactly the kind of always-on service that justifies that arrangement.

Notable

Nothing here is ambiguous. A 256-address enterprise block, self-registered, dual-homed, with no customer cone. The correct read is a business network, not a hosting or access provider, and the small footprint is a feature of the model rather than a sign of decline: the heavy lifting for a distributor of this size sits in ERP and cloud services, not in owned address space.

Interesting

The handle is one of the more misleading-looking in this range. "LeMans" suggests the French endurance race or a European operator; the company is a Wisconsin motorcycle-parts distributor, and the name is branding, not geography.