Autonomous system
AS14378 XVL
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Xenon Ventures
business hosting enterprise
Four upstreams for a network that fits in two blocks.
What it's used for
- An investment company's network. 1,280 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with four observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
66.45.80.0/22and66.151.51.0/24both carry the netnameXVL, which is also the AS handle.- Both are registered directly to the company with no role contact named.
- Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- The AS first appeared in routing on
2000-08-18.
Interesting
- Four upstream relationships is a lot for this much address space. Networks connect to that many carriers when the traffic is worth protecting rather than when there is a lot of it, so what runs on these addresses is something that must not go down rather than something large.
- An AS registered to an investment vehicle usually means acquired businesses. Firms that buy small software companies inherit their networks, and the address space tends to be consolidated under the parent's name while the systems using it stay where they were.
- Three initials used as handle, netname and nothing else gives a reader no way to tell what runs here. Combined with the silence in reverse DNS, this is a network that publishes the minimum the registry demands.
- The two blocks come from ranges that are close together but not adjacent, so they need separate announcements.
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 2026-10-20, 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 · 1.79K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14378- Registry name
- XVL
- Registrant
- Xenon Ventures, LLC
- Abuse contact
- jonathan@xenon.io
- Registered
- 2023-07-26
- Last changed
- 2023-07-26
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 7 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS14378
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS14378
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-21. 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