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.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Address space
Summary
| 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
- Status
- active
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Pair Networks
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- Website
- https://www.pair.com/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere