Autonomous system
AS14471 AUTOMATED-MEDIA-INC - Automated Media, Inc.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Automated Media
business enterprise media
The same carrier that writes addresses backwards in netnames does it again here.
What it's used for
- A media production company's network. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The whole footprint is
70.34.165.0/24, carrying the netnameUSSIG-0-165-34-70-24and registered to the company. - That netname lists the four parts of the address in reverse order, then the prefix length.
- All three sampled addresses answer as
customer-70-34-165-64.host.ussignalcom.netand similar, listing the same parts in the usual order. - Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and all three returned a name.
Interesting
- The identical pattern appears on an unrelated business elsewhere in this sweep, under the same carrier, which settles it: the reversal is systematic rather than a one-off mistake. One generator builds netnames from the address read backwards and another builds hostnames from it read forwards.
- Reverse order is how addresses are written in the naming system itself, so the netname generator took its convention from the lookup tree while the hostname generator took its from how people say addresses aloud.
- The reverse DNS marks every address as a customer host and names the provider, so the company appears only in the registrant.
- One upstream on a single block, with the media work itself almost certainly delivered from somewhere else.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS26554 | US Signal Company, L.L.C. | 65 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-05, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14471- Registry name
- AUTOMATED-MEDIA-INC
- Registrant
- Automated Media, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- amisupport@automed5.com
- Registered
- 2010-10-14
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14471
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS14471
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: 453 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-06. 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