Autonomous system
AS14514 PHJW
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
business enterprise
Four partner initials in the handle, and a netname that appends a top-level domain.
What it's used for
- A law firm's network. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The AS handle is four letters, one for each name in the firm as it stood when the record was made.
- The whole footprint is
216.241.240.0/24, carrying the netnamePHJW-COMand registered to the firm. - That netname is the same four letters with a domain suffix attached.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Law firm names are lists of partners, and they change as partners come and go. Initials taken from such a list freeze it, so the handle records the roster at the moment of registration rather than the firm's current name.
- Appending a top-level domain to a netname makes it look like a hostname without being one. It is a common shortcut for signalling which organisation owns a block, and it introduces a piece of the naming system into a field that has nothing to do with it.
- Firms of this size run document management and client matter systems that never face the public, so a single block covers the outward-facing part only.
- One upstream and nothing published in the reverse DNS.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS19855 | Masergy Communications, Inc. | 44 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-17, 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
AS14514- Registry name
- PHJW
- Registrant
- Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
- Abuse contact
- informationsecurity@paulhastings.com
- Registered
- 1999-12-28
- Last changed
- 2012-03-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14514
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS14514
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: 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