It appears to belong to ans.net: whois 207.26.131.137 ANS Communications, Inc (NETBLK-ANS-C-BLOCK4) 100 Clearbrook Rd Elmsford, NY 10523 US Netname: ANS-C-BLOCK4 Netblock: 207.24.0.0 - 207.27.255.255 Maintainer: ANS Coordinator: ANS Network Operations Center (ANS-NOC-ARIN) noc@ANS.NET 1-800-456-6300 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: NS.ANS.NET 192.103.63.100 NIS.ANS.NET 147.225.1.2 Record last updated on 25-Sep-2001. ----------- The last hop for me when I traceroute there is 137.39.23.34 which belongs to UUNet: whois 137.39.23.34 UUNET Technologies, Inc. (NET-UUNET-WAN) 3060 Williams Drive Fairfax, VA 22031 US Netname: UUNET-WAN Netblock: 137.39.0.0 - 137.39.255.255 Coordinator: UUNET, Technical Support (OA12-ARIN) help@uu.net (800) 900-0241 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: AUTH03.NS.UU.NET 198.6.1.83 AUTH51.NS.UU.NET 198.6.1.162 Record last updated on 05-Jul-1996. Database last updated on 25-Jan-2002 19:56:21 EDT. When you go to www.ans.net it brings up a uunet page. Definately looks like a shady operation :) JD