Autonomous system
AS7859 PAIR-NETWORKS
Hosting ARIN
Summary
pair Networks
hosting legacy
PAIR-NETWORKS is pair Networks, a Pittsburgh web-hosting company founded in 1996 and one of the longer-running independent hosts in the United States. AS7859 carries its shared hosting, WordPress hosting and virtual-server customers.
What it's used for
- Web, email and domain hosting out of pair's own Pittsburgh facilities. The space is a set of substantial ARIN blocks —
216.92.0.0/16,66.39.0.0/17,209.68.0.0/18and216.146.192.0/19— plus IPv62607:f440::/32and2607:f441::/32. - Reverse DNS is exactly what a shared host looks like: gateway and infrastructure names on
pair.net(gw01.pair.net,gw02.pair.net), and customer addresses reversing straight to the hosted domain (mccannadamsstudio.com) or to apair.complaceholder for unnamed hosts.
Notable
- This is server address space, not consumer space. An IP here is a website, a mail server or a VPS, and it may be shared by a large number of unrelated sites — so attributing behaviour from a single address to a single site is unreliable in this AS by design.
- Two distinct domains do the work:
pair.netfor the infrastructure andpair.comfor the customer-facing brand.
Interesting
- pair Networks was acquired by the Dutch hosting group Your.Online in August 2024, but the ASN, the address blocks and the reverse-DNS zones all still carry the original Pittsburgh identity.
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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 8 prefixes · 132K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7859- Registry name
- PAIR-NETWORKS
- Registrant
- pair Networks
- Abuse contact
- abuse@pair.com
- Registered
- 1997-01-30
- Last changed
- 2024-06-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 78% valid · 7 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS7859
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 78% registered · 7 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 15 naming AS7859
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: 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