AS8414 Place des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland

This AS belongs to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United

Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies,

headquartered at the Place des Nations in Geneva. Many datasets render the holder as

"Place des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland" — that is the ITU's **street

address**, not a company name, lifted out of the registry description field.

What it's used for

• The ITU's own institutional network: staff and secretariat systems, the agency's public web and document services, and connectivity for the conferences, study groups and world radiocommunication meetings it hosts in Geneva.
• Its prefixes are registered ITU-GVA- and described simply as Geneva, Switzerland*; the bulk of the space is a legacy 156.106.0.0/16.

Notable

• An intergovernmental organisation's address space, not a carrier's. The ITU writes the treaties and technical recommendations that telecom operators follow; it does not sell connectivity, and nothing here is subscriber or hosting space.
• Reverse DNS across the block is sparse, which is normal for a network that is mostly staff and internal systems behind a single headquarters.

Interesting

• The ITU is the oldest organisation in the UN system, founded in 1865 as the International Telegraph Union, decades before the internet it now helps to standardise. It also allocates the international radio call-sign prefixes and the E.164 country calling codes.