Autonomous system
AS14280 NETNATION
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Ntirety
hosting business isp
Five different brand names appear in one company's records, and three of them in a single block.
What it's used for
- A hosting provider's network. 768 IPv4 addresses across three prefixes, one IPv6 prefix, and two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The three blocks carry the netnames
NETNATION,HOSTWAYandNETNATION-CA, all registered to the same current owner. - Within one of those blocks, the sampled addresses answer as
www.domainpeople.com,assigned.netnation.comandldb401.van.ca.siteprotect.com. - The AS handle is a fourth string, matching the oldest of the netnames rather than the registrant.
- Nine addresses were queried for reverse DNS and three returned a name.
Interesting
- Hosting is a business built by acquisition, and every purchase brings a brand that keeps serving customers who never asked to be moved. The registry shows the current owner; the reverse DNS shows what those customers still see. Neither is wrong.
- The load balancer name is the most informative string here: a device number, a city code, a country code and a fifth brand, in narrowing order. It tells anyone reading a traceroute which building the traffic reached.
- One address answering as assigned rather than as a service is a placeholder set by the provider on space handed to a customer, so that the address resolves before anyone configures it properly.
- Two upstreams and a single IPv6 end-site block is a modest arrangement for a provider holding this many brands, which suggests the merged infrastructure is smaller than the sum of the names.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 2001:504:16::37c8 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 1 downstream and 4 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS29909 | Metro Optic | 206 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14280- Registry name
- NETNATION
- Registrant
- HDC/HW Enterprise, LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@hostmysite.com
- Registered
- 1999-11-22
- Last changed
- 2023-01-23
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14280
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 17 naming AS14280
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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