Autonomous system
AS14816 HKUASN - Metabo HPT
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Metabo HPT
business enterprise
The AS handle is three initials that match nothing else in the record.
What it's used for
- A power tool manufacturer's network. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The AS handle is
HKUASN, three letters followed by the word for the record type. - Those letters bear no relation to the holder name recorded alongside them.
- The whole footprint is
50.238.42.0/24, carrying the netnameCCCH3-4and registered to a cable carrier. - Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Handles outlive the names they were made from. A set of initials that fits no current word in the record is the fingerprint of a company that changed its name after registering, since the holder field gets updated on a rename and the handle usually does not.
- The netname is the carrier's own compressed abbreviation plus two counters, so between it and the handle the record contains two opaque strings and one readable company name.
- The block is registered to the carrier rather than to the manufacturer, which makes the AS number the only piece of this network the company holds in its own name.
- One upstream and no IPv6 puts this at the smallest end of what a routed corporate edge looks like.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS7725 | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC | 56 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-07, 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
AS14816- Registry name
- HKUASN
- Registrant
- Metabo HPT
- Abuse contact
- mis@kokiholdingsamerica.com
- Registered
- 2018-06-08
- Last changed
- 2018-06-08
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS14816
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS14816
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: 454 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-11-08. 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