Oh and it doesn't even properly consume the geofeed information I have published.
The site says that the trust score was improved because the allocation for my IP is >10 years old, however my ISP didn't exist 10 years ago. The ASN for my ISP is only 5 years old (they brought some IP blocks because you know IPv4 address exhaustion!)
And very very little data is returned for my ipv6 /48
If you wanted to do something genuinely cool you could try to build an algorithmic model of latency between network points on the Internet. Such that it would be possible to estimate latency between any two network paths without sending packets first to measure it. I think I read research somewhere that this is possible and it could have applications in routing, distributed systems, and high performance networking.
BBN/successors may have held multiple class As at times, but being large ISPs probably used a lot of the space? Various clouds have a lot of space, but afaik, not in the form of whole class As.
Looks like IBM probably had multiple class As through acquisition, but I don't think they still hold them either?
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