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AS36324 VOSTROM-PUBLIC - VOSTROM Holdings, Inc.

Hosted domains 54
Number of IPs 11,008
Allocated 16 years ago on Nov 29, 2005

ipinfo.io/AS36324

IPv4

137.152.224.0/19 Grand Canyon Uni
137.152.248.0/21 Grand Canyon Uni
204.68.171.0/24 IronAge Softworks
204.74.65.0/24 Internet Media Network
204.74.78.0/24 Internet Media Network
208.74.248.0/21 VOSTROM
208.74.248.0/22 VOSTROM
208.74.252.0/22 VOSTROM
208.74.255.0/24 VOSTROM

[Interesting, Internet Media Network is still around]

[I thought it became Genuity]

IPv6

2001:470:bb::/48 Hurricane Electric LLC
2620:d1:4000::/48 VOSTROM
2620:d1:4001::/48 VOSTROM

208.74.248.57 positiveidcheck[.]com
204.74.78.121 prosuasive[.]com
208.74.248.44 goodgirl[.]ventures
208.74.248.41 oppleman[.]com
208.74.248.60 thespinzone[.]net
204.74.78.12 centergate[.]net
208.74.250.103 amiowned[.]com
208.74.255.36 traceto[.]me

208.74.248.39 pwhois[.]net
208.74.248.37 pathanalyzerpro[.]com
208.74.248.56 contractcalendar[.]com
208.74.248.45 goodgirlswritecode[.]org
208.74.248.38 whoisanalyzerpro[.]com
208.74.248.42 consilio[.]lawyer
208.74.248.36 extremeexploits[.]org
208.74.255.11 vostrom[.]net

208.74.248.46 gleancorp[.]com
204.74.78.75 whois-servers[.]net
208.74.248.40 vostrom[.]com
204.68.171.10 jumpgate[.]us
204.68.171.73 n4smg[.]net
204.74.78.123 mailorder[.]com
208.74.248.43 vostrom[.]ventures
208.74.250.101 easycalea[.]com
204.74.78.80 geektools[.]com

Vostrom Holdings, Inc. is an Arizona Business filed On 31 Oct 2001

The company's filing status is listed as Appointed 10/31/2001 and its File Number is F10073780

The company has 1 contact on record: Victor Oppleman, Phoenix AZ

bizapedia.com/az/vostrom-hol…

Sasha Oppleman [Victor's wife?], Founder of Good Girls Write Code

prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Oppleman and some of Joffe's other friends wrote a book

amazon.com/Extreme-Exploi…

Victor Oppleman
developed backbone systems at Genuity
later a senior architect at BBN and GTE
[Founder of MainNerve]

Oliver Friedrichs
Senior Manager at Symantec Security Response
Has "shared his expertise w/ DHS, USSS, IRS, DOD, NASA, AFOSI & Canada's DND"

Brett Watson
works for ISC's DNS OARC, where he analyzes DNS behavior
Previously worked for Genuity and MCI and shares the Hopscotch patent with Joffe

James Willett
founder of Jatell a "product development and consulting firm"
Was previously Director of Professional Services for MainNerve
Served as a Communications-Electronics Maintenance Chief in the Marine Corps

Zachary Kanner
Software Engineer at CenterBeam
Core Engineer at Remedy Corp.

Jesse Dunagan
MainNerve's Priciple System Architect
Data Center Manager at StoreRunner
"Worked for Marine Corps" on cutting edge information systems projects

Jim Lippard
Director of Information Security Operations at Global Crossing
GCOS Sys Admin at Honeywell
Sr SecOps at Frontier, Primenet, GlobalCenter
"Research Philosopher" for Genuity/Bechtel
MA Philosophy from University of Arizona

You guys remember Global Crossing right? The giant telco bankruptcy that happened right around the time Enron was dominating the news?

Global Crossing was the company the British MoD called when it needed a mini-sub, originally designed for NATO military rescue operations, so they could rescue Kursk, a sunken Russian nuclear sub with 118 seamen aboard

web.archive.org/web/2019063017…

27 Aug 2003

MainNerve Client Roster:
FTIFlow Technologies
DEVEREUX
Arizona Society of Certified Public Accountants (ASCPA)
Lexent Technologies
PPL
General Atomics Aeronautics Systems
UltraDNS

web.archive.org/web/2003082719…

I wonder if Oppleman collaborated with In-Q-Tel on any projects while he was at BBN

Founded in 2001, VOSTROM is privately held & based in the US w/ ops concentrated in Virginia. In addition to our commercial endeavors, we contribute to the open source software community by providing hosting services, financial support and source code

web.archive.org/web/2016011917…

Operating independently, VOSTROM Ventures is the venture fund and investment arm of the company whose mission is to empower founders of innovative startups through funding, guidance and strategic customer acquisitions.

21 June 2007

MainNerve Leadership:

Jeffrey D. Logsdon, Director, CEO

As a co-founder, he is responsible for the growth & strategic direction of Netforce Security
Worked at:
MCI
TCG (now AT&T Local)
NEXTLINK (now XO Communications)
Telseon (now Qwest)

web.archive.org/web/2007062101…

he has closed strategic deals with
Qwest
Sprint
AT&T
Cable & Wireless
Global Crossing
Deutsche Telekom
Genuity
Exodus
MFN
Level3

graduated as an honored student-athlete from California Lutheran University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management

James O'Shaughnessy, Director, COO

As Netforce Security's operations leader and co-founder

Prior to founding Netforce Security, Jim co-founded and is a director of MainNerve

Jim held sales and sales management positions with Genuity
Critical Path
Click Commerce

Gerald Paulino, GM, Auditing Services

Served in the Army as an Armor Officer
Did a tour with NATO serving with the INFOSEC Branch at the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), where he conducted security assessments and tested security products for implementation

Ian Dawson, Manager Adaptive Darknet Services

As Manager of Adaptive Darknet Services, Ian has the responsibility of overseeing the day-to-day service and development of the Adaptive Darknet product line.

Mary Rima, Director of Finance

Mary has been a Certified Public Accountant for 20 years, and holds a Bachelor's of Science from Purdue University in Industrial Management, and a Master's in Business Administration from Arizona State University.

2 Sept 2008
About MainNerve:

Founded in 2001 in Phoenix, Arizona, MainNerve began as a boutique consulting firm with a focus on supporting companies with high-end network routing and security needs.

web.archive.org/web/2008090204…

MainNerve had some initial success in leveraging its experience in the design and development of Internet backbones and routing infrastructures for some of the largest ISP's in the world, and matching that skill-set to the needs of enterprise and SMB.

MainNerve migrated a good portion of it's attention to the development of the Adaptive DarkNet™ security appliance in response to many of the problems clients were having in truly securing their networks against stealthy bot, and botnet threats in as early as 2002

Q: What about Vostrom Holdings?

Joffe: I have no ownership connection, business connection to that domain at all.

I wonder if this is Joffe, if so this seems like a "business connection"

18 Oct 2016
Vostrom Ventures - Team

Rodney [Joffe?]
Venture Partner

Rodney is a serial entrepreneur and business soothsayer.

web.archive.org/web/2016101821…

He's had numerous $50M+ exits, more importantly he's built real companies creating tangible infrastructure & he's delivered value to the world in addition to return for his shareholders. His first Internet startup was in 1995 when he built the first Internet data center company

"All content is Copyright (c) 2014 VOSTROM Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved."

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