MCI/Verizon own Sonic DNS servers?

[wondering]

i looked up the DNS servers provided by Sonic customer service 208.201.204.11 and 208.201.224.33 using whois.domaintools.com and noticed under organization name and address these servers are MCI/Verizon servers although on the 'surface' they are labeled as Sonic servers.

When I type in Whoami in my browser I the IP address that came back was 50.1.94.1 or 50.1.94.253.
when I run whois.domaintools.com on these servers the organization name and address is indicated as Sonic in Santa Rosa.

Can u please use domaintools and look at all these servers and the organizations who run them and please explain the discrepancy? i frankly don't trust verizon/AT&T (due to NSA cooperation and their significant revenue stream/NSA reimbursement for turning over confidential customer info without a warrant) and would prefer to use a DNS server owned and operated by Sonic - in more than just name.

Thanks for your help!

[kgc]

208.201.224.0/19 is an allocation that we received from UUNet a long, long time ago. There's no relation to UUNet/MCI/Verizon at this point except for the fact that the block is carved out of 208.192.0.0/10 which they "own". I don't know all of the history here but it is possible that we didn't meet the requirements for direct allocation by ARIN at the time we received the block from UUNet.

See http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=208.2 ... xt=netref2