Autonomous system
AS14312 1-800CONTACTS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
1-800 Contacts
business enterprise infrastructure
A netname that spells out the punctuation mark it could not use.
What it's used for
- A contact lens retailer's network. 1,280 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
216.194.116.0/24carries the netnameNET-216-194-116-0-SLASH-24.204.16.236.0/22carries1800-CONTACTSand names a network group as contact.- The AS handle begins with a telephone number, since the company's name is one.
- Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Netnames cannot contain a slash, so a generating tool wrote the word instead. The result reads the address out loud, and it turns up often enough across the registry to be a recognisable house style rather than one person's improvisation. It is a small monument to a field that was never designed to hold address notation in the first place.
- A telephone number as an AS handle is a rarity worth noticing. Handles are meant to be short mnemonics for a network, and this one works only because the company sells itself by the number people dial.
- A retailer whose storefront is a website usually puts that site behind a content delivery network, which is why nothing in this range publishes a name and why the address count stays small.
- Two upstreams and one small announcement each is the arrangement of a business whose internet presence is mostly somebody else's infrastructure.
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 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14312- Registry name
- 1-800CONTACTS
- Registrant
- 1-800 Contacts, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- domain@1800contacts.com
- Registered
- 1999-11-24
- Last changed
- 2017-11-30
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 80% valid · 4 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS14312
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 11 naming AS14312
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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