Autonomous system
AS14019 PARMTECH
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
PTC
enterprise business infrastructure
The AS handle spells a name that appears nowhere else on the record.
What it's used for
- A software company's network. 2,048 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
198.73.192.0/21carries the netnameNETBLK-PTC-2, registered to the company under its three-letter name.- The AS handle is
PARMTECH, a contraction of a longer name that the organisation field does not use. - Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- The AS first appeared in routing on
2000-08-18.
Interesting
- Handles are chosen once and effectively permanent, so they preserve whatever the organisation called itself on the day it registered. The company shortened its name to initials at some point and the handle kept the long form, which makes it a small dated artefact sitting in current records.
- Anyone tracing this network by name will find the initials in one field and the older word in the other, and will have to work out that they are the same organisation. Registries are full of these small discontinuities, and they are the reason attribution is a research task rather than a lookup.
- The netname numbered two says there is a first block filed elsewhere, most likely under a different AS belonging to the same company.
- One block, two upstreams, nothing published: an enterprise network with no public services to name.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14019- Registry name
- PARMTECH
- Registrant
- PTC INC.
- Abuse contact
- curtin@ptc.com
- Registered
- 1999-10-05
- Last changed
- 2019-11-08
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14019
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 8 naming AS14019
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere