Autonomous system
AS14974 VIRTUAL-INC
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Virtual Inc.
media hosting business
Reverse names with the address written backwards, and four blocks under four different owners.
What it's used for
- A hosting network in Puerto Rico carrying newspaper and media systems. 1,024 addresses across four IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The four blocks have four separate registrants: a mobile operator,
Virtual,Endi, andEL DIA INC. - Netnames match that split:
CENT-IP,VIRTUAL-ENDI,196-32-153-0-1andIS-ELDIA. - Three of twelve sampled addresses answered, in the form
64-224-203-67-static.centennialpr.net. - Those names put the four parts of the address in reverse order.
Interesting
- Reversed addresses in reverse DNS are rare and worth pausing on. The reverse lookup zone is itself written backwards, so a script that reads the query and pastes the parts straight into a name produces this. It works, it is unique per address, and it reads as nonsense to anyone expecting the usual order.
- The carrier brand in those names belongs to a company since absorbed by the operator now listed as registrant, so the names are a generation behind the record above them.
- Four blocks, four holders, one AS is a small island market in miniature: two publishing companies, a hosting company and a mobile operator sharing routing rather than each running their own number.
- Two upstreams for a network carrying newspapers is the minimum for something people read on the morning of a hurricane.
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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| PR | Puerto Rico | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14974- Registry name
- VIRTUAL-INC
- Registrant
- Virtual Inc.
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@zonai.net
- Registered
- 2000-03-01
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14974
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 75% registered · 3 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS14974
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 1,773 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