Autonomous system
AS14230 INVOLTA
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Involta
hosting business infrastructure
One netname is 26 digits long, and the first twelve of them are the block's own address with every octet padded to three figures.
What it's used for
- A data centre operator's network. 55,808 addresses across 74 IPv4 prefixes plus 21 IPv6 prefixes, with 35 observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Most blocks carry
INVOLTAor a name likeINV-209-19-128-0-18, registered toARK Data Centers LLC. 69.212.176.0/21carries the netnameSBC06921217600021040303144637, registered toDelta Media Grp.162.107.224.0/21carriesDCI, registered toDonaldson Company.- One netname is written
INVOLTA-72-50-224-0--20, with two hyphens before the length. - The IPv6 space descends
2604:9b00::/47,/46,/45,/44,/43,/42,/41and/40.
Interesting
- Strip
SBCfrom that long netname and the first twelve digits are069212176000, which is69.212.176.0with each octet padded out to three figures. The rest reads as a date and a time. A carrier's provisioning system generated the whole string so it would never collide, and a registry that only requires uniqueness accepted it. - Two blocks are registered to customers rather than to the operator. A data centre that assigns space to tenants leaves their names in the registry, so the customer list is partly public.
- The doubled hyphen is a template that expected a negative-looking field and got a plain one. Nothing validates netnames, so a formatting slip becomes permanent.
- The IPv6 chain doubles at every step, the same shape a range takes when it is subdivided on paper.
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
Recorded at 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange | Minneapolis, United States | 206.108.255.180 |
| Quad Cities Internet Exchange | Davenport, United States | 206.83.43.58 |
| Ohio IX | Columbus, United States | 206.53.204.106 |
| Pittsburgh Internet Exchange | Pittsburgh, United States | 206.71.141.37 |
Transit providers
15 upstream, 21 downstream and 48 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 74 prefixes · 55.81K addresses IPv6 30 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 104 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14230- Registry name
- INVOLTA
- Registrant
- ARK Data Centers LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@involta.com
- Registered
- 2006-08-25
- Last changed
- 2017-04-06
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Involta
- Also known as
- Involta, LLC
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS14230:AS-CONE- Present at
- 6 exchanges
- Facilities
- 11 facilities
- Website
- http://involta.com
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 83% valid · 69 valid, 14 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 43 authorising AS14230
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99% registered · 82 of 83 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 4,692 naming AS14230
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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