AS16007 ASN-KANCOM KANCOM Fiber-Optic Network

The registrant is a partnership named after three countries, in capitals, with the brand in quotes.

What it's used for

• A fibre network operator. Two IPv4 prefixes announced from Ukraine, no IPv6, five thousand one hundred and twenty addresses, across five observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The full legal name is three nationalities joined by hyphens, then four words for a limited liability partnership, then the brand in double quotation marks, all in capitals.
• That whole string is the registrant on both blocks, quotation marks included, where a registry field usually holds a trimmed trading name.
• The AS handle repeats the brand twice, once with three letters for an autonomous system in front, then describes the network as fibre-optic.
• Both netnames follow the same template of country code, brand and date, one from the year two thousand and one from fifteen years later.
• The second registrant on both blocks is a coordination centre named after the brand.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Three nationalities in a company name is a record of how the network was funded rather than where it runs. Joint ventures were the usual way capital reached telecommunications in the region, and the arrangement is preserved in the legal name long after the money stopped mattering.
• Two blocks fifteen years apart, same template, same contacts, is what continuity looks like in the registry: rare, and worth noticing precisely because it is rare.