Autonomous system
AS14096 FIRSTRATE-ARL-TEXAS-AS - First Rate, Inc.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
First Rate
business enterprise
The handle abbreviates the city and then spells the state out in full.
What it's used for
- A financial technology company's network. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The AS handle is
FIRSTRATE-ARL-TEXAS-AS: the company name, a three-letter city abbreviation, a state written out, and the record type. - The whole footprint is
50.58.31.0/24, carrying the netnameTWTC-FIRSTRATEand registered to the company. - That netname leads with a carrier abbreviation before the customer name.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Mixing an abbreviation and a full word inside the same identifier is the small inconsistency worth noticing. Whoever wrote it shortened the city because it was long and left the state alone because it was familiar, which is how these fields drift out of any scheme.
- Four groups in a handle is more structure than most records in this range carry, and it makes this one of the few where the location can be read straight off the number.
- The carrier named in the netname was absorbed into a larger company, so the label outlived the operator that wrote it.
- One upstream, no IPv6, and nothing published in the reverse DNS for a company whose customers reach it through hosted software.
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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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS14313 | zColo | 60 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-14, 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 · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14096- Registry name
- FIRSTRATE-ARL-TEXAS-AS
- Registrant
- First Rate, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- jejohnson@firstrate.com
- Registered
- 2010-10-14
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS14096
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS14096
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: 455 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-11-14. 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