AS8794 FAZ Hellerhofstrasse 2-4

FAZ is the corporate AS of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, publisher of the German national daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The registry handle carries the company's Hellerhofstrasse address in Frankfurt, which is why the raw string reads like a street name rather than a network.

What it's used for

The AS announces about 4,096 IPv4 addresses across just two prefixes, both inside 193.227.144.0/20, plus one IPv6 prefix. With two observed BGP neighbours and no downstreams, this is a single-site enterprise network taking transit from a couple of upstreams. There is no evidence of subscriber space, hosting resale, or transit provision.

No PTRs were returned on the addresses sampled inside the announced prefixes. That says nothing definitive about the zone's delegation, only that the sampled hosts did not answer.

Notable

• 193.227.144.0/20 has been originated by this AS since the earliest routing snapshots available, consistent with a mid-1990s RIPE allocation to a major newspaper that connected early.
• The -Hellerhofstrasse 2-4 fragment in the handle is a postal address, not a description of the network. Several German registry objects from this era embed the street address this way.
• Newspapers of this vintage often kept a modest self-run AS for editorial systems and mail while pushing the public website onto CDNs. The tiny, static footprint here is consistent with that.