AS12883 UCOMLINE PRIVATE JOINT-STOCK COMPANY FARLEP-INVEST

One company written four different ways in a single registry record, and city codes hidden in the reverse names.

What it's used for

• A Ukrainian internet provider. 17,408 addresses across 28 IPv4 prefixes, one IPv6 prefix, and eight observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The largest blocks are 62.221.40.0/21 and 93.178.216.0/21.
• Netnames are UA-OD-20030520, UA-OD-20080403 and VEGA-GPON-LVIV.
• One record lists the holder as Farlep Invest PrJSC, PRIVATE JOINT-STOCK COMPANY "FARLEP-INVEST", Farlep-Invest PJSC and a Vega Telecom Group operations team, all at once.
• The registry lookup for 93.178.204.0/22 failed, so nothing here describes that block's record.
• Ten of eighteen sampled addresses returned names, including 0-42.221.62.khe.vega-ua.net, 62-221-45-254.static.vega-ua.net and the bare domain ucomline.net.

Interesting

• The same company appears four times in four spellings: with and without quotes, expanded and abbreviated, hyphenated and not. Each is a separate contact object created at a different time by a different person, and the registry has no notion that they are the same entity.
• The names encode geography twice over. UA-OD marks Odesa, VEGA-GPON-LVIV marks Lviv and the fibre technology serving it, and khe inside a reverse name marks Kherson. Read together the records sketch a national network city by city, which no single field was meant to convey.
• One address answers with a bare domain, ucomline.net, rather than a hostname within it. A reverse name pointing at a domain's apex is what happens when someone fills the field with the company's website instead of a name for the machine.
• Two reverse-name styles run side by side: one reverses the octets and appends a city, the other writes them forwards and says static. Different parts of this network were configured by different people at different times, and nothing ever forced them into agreement.