Are your Class C IPs really distinct and non-consecutive
Yes, and you do not have to take our word for it. The pool is made of distinct, non-consecutive Class C blocks rather than one contiguous range sliced up, and your full allocation is visible in the control panel before you point a single domain at anything. If what you were handed did not match the description, you would see it there first.
What distinct means here
Distinct means the third octet genuinely differs between your addresses, and the blocks those addresses come from are not neighbours. An allocation where the third number counts upward one step at a time is four blocks on paper and one purchase in reality. That is the arrangement this product exists to avoid.
The pool is deliberately built the other way: blocks scattered across the address space, drawn from more than thirteen hundred separate Class C ranges split between the American and European facilities. Assembling that takes years, which is precisely why it is the part of the product that is hard to copy.
How to check it yourself
You should verify this rather than trust a sales page, and it takes a few minutes:
- List your allocation in the panel before assigning anything. Write the addresses down.
- Compare the third octets. Look for a sequence. Consecutive values from one parent are the failure case.
- Resolve a few of your own domains once they are live and confirm each returns the address you expected.
- Do a reverse lookup on a sample to see what else answers there. This is the check anyone else would run on you.
Reverse lookups are the useful part. They tell you what an outside observer sees, which is the only perspective that matters for footprint purposes.
What the check will not tell you
An address being distinct today says nothing about what happened on it before you arrived, and it says nothing about the rest of your footprint. Both are worth separating in your head:
- History. Addresses get reused across the industry. If a reverse lookup turns up something you would rather not sit beside, reassign the site to a different address rather than argue about it.
- Everything above the network layer. Distinct addresses do not help if the sites share a theme, a registrar batch or an analytics identifier.
If something looks wrong
Reassignment is self-service and immediate, so an address you are unhappy with is not something you have to live with. Swap it, verify the new one, carry on. There is more on that workflow in IP Diversity, and the regional pools are described on the USA page and the European one.
Still not sure which way to go?
Tell us what you are building. If it needs less than you think, we will say so.