Autonomous system
AS14713 HBL-35-14713
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Hosted Backbone
hosting transit infrastructure
One of its addresses answers undefined.hostname.localhost, and one of its blocks belongs to a shoe shop.
What it's used for
- A hosting and transit provider's network. 5,376 addresses across 11 IPv4 prefixes and 16 IPv6 prefixes, with 37 observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Its own blocks carry
HBL-V4-1,HBL-V4-2,HOSTED-NETBLK4and three copies ofNETBLK4. 204.109.52.0/22carriesHBL-V4-3but is registered toSaxon Shoes, Inc.- Other blocks belong to
Fauquier County,Verizon Business, and two companies filed in another registry asUS-CLEARDOCKS-20110419andUS-TRUVIEW-20100820. - Four of eighteen sampled addresses returned names, including
nc-ctl4-edge1_lo2.ctl4.nc.hostedbackbone.netandundefined.hostname.localhost.
Interesting
- That last name is a default string from network equipment, published to the internet because nobody replaced it. It is the most honest record in the pack.
- The router names carry an underscore, which hostnames are not supposed to contain, and encode state, site, device and the exact interface the address sits on. Anyone reading them learns the provider's physical layout for free.
- A retailer's
/22under the provider's own netname series is address space bought or inherited from a business with no further use for it. The county block next to it is a customer keeping its own registration. - The IPv6 side is one family announced as a ladder from
/47up to/39, far more space than the IPv4 footprint suggests.
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 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.238.49 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.223.119.150 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Miami | Miami, United States | 198.32.243.247 |
| Equinix-LA(former Paix) | Los Angeles, United States | 198.32.243.247 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 6 downstream and 24 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 10 prefixes · 5.12K addresses IPv6 16 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 26 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14713- Registry name
- HBL-35-14713
- Registrant
- Hosted Backbone
- Abuse contact
- eweiner@hostedbackbone.net
- Registered
- 2015-10-30
- Last changed
- 2015-10-30
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 71% valid · 12 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS14713
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 17 of 17 announcements
- Route objects
- 92 naming AS14713
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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