AS16350 ECHELON-AS Institutenweg 38

Technical questions go to one brand, complaints go to another, and the AS handle is a street address.

What it's used for

• A hosting company's network. Three prefixes announced from the Netherlands, one of them IPv6, five thousand one hundred and twenty addresses, through fifty-two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The AS handle is a brand, the letters for an autonomous system, then a street name and a house number. The routing label records where the equipment is.
• The holder is a different brand entirely, a single word plus a legal form, and that word is also what both netnames use.
• Each block lists four contacts. Three of them, the company, its administrators and its technical contacts, use the holder's brand. The fourth, the abuse contact, uses the handle's brand.
• Both netnames follow one scheme: a country code, the holder's brand, and a full date. The two dates are eleven years apart and the format did not change.
• Fifty-two observed neighbours on five thousand addresses is ten times the peering the network's size would suggest.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Splitting contacts by brand, technical under one name and abuse under another, usually means two businesses share infrastructure and only one of them wants the complaints.
• A single word as a company name is a claim about the top of a hierarchy. It also makes the registry entry impossible to search for, which every other field in this record quietly works around.