Autonomous system
AS14278 BBOX-IT-AS-1
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Black Box Network Services
business enterprise infrastructure
Records numbered two, three and five, and one host that escaped to another domain.
What it's used for
- A network services company's own network. 1,280 addresses across five IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The netnames run
BBOX-IT-IP-2,BBOX-IT-IP-3on two blocks, andBBOX-IT-IP-5, so two numbers in the series are missing. - The lookup for
204.89.129.0/24failed, so that block's record is unknown. - Ten of fifteen sampled addresses answered. Nine are the address itself with dashes, in the form
192-147-73-64.blackbox.com. - The exception is
cscsupport.blackbox-vs.com, a named host under a second company domain.
Interesting
- Gaps in a numbered series mean records that were merged, returned or renamed, and the numbers left behind are the only trace. Whoever files these blocks has kept counting rather than reusing, so the sequence records the total number of times the company has been to the registry.
- The one named host sits under a domain with a two-letter suffix that the rest of the network does not use, which usually marks a separately acquired or separately run part of the business. It also names itself as customer support, which is a hint no attacker has to work for.
- Generating names from addresses across four blocks means every address answers, so a scan finds live space instantly, but learns nothing beyond what it already had.
- A company that sells network services running only two upstreams is a quiet irony worth noting.
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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14278- Registry name
- BBOX-IT-AS-1
- Registrant
- Black Box Network Services
- Abuse contact
- netabuse@blackbox.com
- Registered
- 1999-11-19
- Last changed
- 2021-04-14
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14278
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 80% registered · 4 of 5 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS14278
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: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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