Class C Ip Checker Free Tool

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About Class C Ip Checker

What the Class C IP Checker Actually Does

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The Class C IP Checker takes a batch of domains, one per line, with no hard limit on how many you paste in at once, and tells you which ones share the same first three octets of their IP address, the block informally known as a "Class C" or a /24. You're not looking up one domain at a time. You paste a whole list into the textarea, submit it once, and get back a table showing every domain next to its resolved IP address and the Class C block that IP falls into. Then you scan that last column for repeats.

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That bulk-compare design is the whole point of the tool, and it's worth being explicit about because a lot of people expect a "checker" like this to work the way a single-domain lookup does: type one thing in, get one answer out. This one is built the opposite way. It's meant to sit in front of you with a list you already have, ten domains you're thinking about buying from the same seller, thirty links a vendor pitched you as guest-post placements, your own network of blogs you've built up over a few years, and answer a question you can't easily answer by eyeballing a list of IP addresses yourself: how many of these are sitting on the same server, rack, or hosting pool.

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It's also a narrow tool in what it doesn't do. It doesn't group matching rows for you, doesn't highlight or color-code repeats, doesn't sort by Class C block, and doesn't tell you anything about who owns a given IP or which hosting company it belongs to. It resolves domains to IPs, extracts the first three octets, and lays out a flat table in the order you submitted the domains. Everything past that, spotting the pattern, deciding what it means, checking who actually owns the server, is on you. That's covered in detail further down, in "Reading and Interpreting the Results Table."

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The single-lookup framing is worth flagging explicitly because it's the default assumption most people bring in from other, similarly-named utilities. A lot of adjacent tools genuinely are one-at-a-time: paste a single domain, get a single answer back, submit again for the next one. This tool's form is built differently on purpose, one textarea that accepts an entire list, because the underlying question, "which of these domains cluster together," only makes sense across a set. Checking one domain's Class C block in isolation tells you nothing at all, a block only becomes meaningful once you can compare it against at least one other domain's block, which is exactly why the workflow is bulk-first rather than single-lookup-first.

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A Quick Refresher: What "Class C" Actually Means

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"Class C" is a piece of terminology left over from how IP address space used to be divided up, before the internet ran out of addresses fast enough to force a smarter system. In the original scheme, from the early days of IPv4 through the early 1990s, every IP address block belonged to one of five fixed-size classes, and which class an address fell into was determined entirely by the value of its first octet.

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A "Class C" network, by that original definition, is a block where the first three octets are fixed and only the last octet varies, giving 256 possible addresses in the block (with the first and last reserved for network and broadcast addresses, leaving 254 usable). Two IP addresses that share their first three octets, 192.0.2.14 and 192.0.2.201, for example, are said to be in the same Class C block, or the same /24.

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This system was formally retired in 1993, replaced by CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing), which lets network blocks be sliced at any size rather than one of five fixed ones. Modern routers and modern hosting infrastructure don't think in terms of "Class C" at all, they think in CIDR notation, a /24, a /23, a /27, whatever size actually fits. But the term never really went away informally, especially in the SEO and link-building world, because "same first three octets" is still a simple, useful shorthand for "these two servers are probably sitting close together, on the same rack or in the same address pool," even though the formal classful system it comes from hasn't governed how routing actually works in over three decades. That's the sense the tool, and this page, use the term in: the everyday shorthand, not the retired formal standard.

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The retirement wasn't cosmetic, it was forced by simple math. Fixed classes are wasteful: an organization that needed 2,000 addresses had no in-between option, it either took a Class C block that was too small (254 addresses) or a Class B block that was wildly oversized (65,534 addresses), with most of that space sitting unused. As the internet grew through the late 1980s and early 1990s, that waste started burning through the available IPv4 address space far faster than actual demand justified. CIDR fixed the waste by decoupling block size from a fixed class entirely, letting an ISP or registry hand out a /22 or a /27 or whatever size actually matched real demand. The old class boundaries, and the terms A through E, are a relic of that earlier, less efficient system, kept alive today purely as informal vocabulary rather than because any router still enforces them.

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None of that history changes what the checker actually does day to day. Whether you call it a /24 or a Class C block, the calculation is identical: same first three octets, same block. The historical detour matters mainly so the term isn't mistaken for something more technically load-bearing than it is.

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How the Lookup Works Under the Hood

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Once you submit your list of domains, the tool processes each line the same way, in order, before building the results table.

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First, it cleans up the line. Any leading www. gets stripped, and a scheme is force-added if one isn't already there, so a bare domain like example.com becomes something the tool can treat as a URL. Blank lines in your pasted list are silently skipped, they never make it into the results at all.

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Second, it validates the line as a URL. If what's left after cleanup doesn't pass basic URL validation, that line is dropped, quietly, with no error message shown for it. It just won't have a row in the results table. This matters if you're pasting a list from somewhere else and expect every line you submitted to come back with a result. A stray typo, an extra space, or a genuinely malformed entry can vanish without any warning that it failed.

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Third, for every line that does pass validation, the tool pulls the hostname out of it and resolves that hostname to an IPv4 address via a standard DNS lookup. If you paste in a raw IP address instead of a domain, that resolution step effectively passes it straight through unchanged, so raw IPs work too even though the textarea's placeholder text only mentions domains.

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Fourth, once it has an IP address, the tool splits it on the dots and joins the first three segments back together with dots, giving you the Class C value. 192.0.2.187 becomes 192.0.2. That's the entire calculation, nothing more sophisticated than string-splitting on a resolved IP.

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Fifth, the result gets added as a row: position number, the domain you submitted, the resolved IP, and the Class C block. Rows appear in the same order you submitted the domains in, there's no re-sorting or grouping by block.

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There's one accuracy caveat to know before you rely on the output: if DNS resolution fails for a given hostname, some resolvers return the original hostname text back unchanged rather than throwing a visible error. In practice this means a failed lookup can occasionally produce a row where the "IP" and "Class C Block" columns don't actually contain a real IP or block at all, they still contain leftover hostname text, and nothing in the interface flags that row as different from a genuinely successful one. If a row looks obviously wrong, a Class C value that doesn't look like three numeric octets, that's very likely what happened, not a tool bug.

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This whole pipeline, cleanup, validation, DNS resolution, and the octet split, runs for every line in your batch, one at a time, before the page renders anything back to you. That's why response time scales with the size of your batch: each domain requires a live DNS lookup, a real network round trip rather than a local calculation, and the lookups run sequentially rather than in parallel. There's no hard limit on how many domains you can submit, but a small list comes back in a couple of seconds while a very large one will take noticeably longer, since the tool is waiting on that many individual DNS round trips.

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Is Shared Class C Hosting Still a Real SEO Signal?

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This is the part that deserves a straight answer, because a lot of pages about this kind of tool oversell it. Shared Class C hosting between two sites is not a documented Google ranking factor, and it has never been one that Google has confirmed using directly. It's a heuristic, an inference tool some SEOs and some link-analysis software have used for years, not a mechanism Google has stated it applies.

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The reasoning behind the heuristic goes back to the private blog network era, roughly the 2010s, when link builders running dozens or hundreds of low-quality sites to manipulate rankings would often, out of convenience or cost, host all of them on the same server or the same small block of IP addresses. Spotting a cluster of backlinks all coming from domains on the same /24 became one signal, among several, that a set of links might belong to a single owner running a coordinated network rather than being genuinely independent, editorially earned links from unrelated sites. Google has talked publicly about detecting link networks and penalizing manipulative link schemes, but it has consistently declined to confirm the specific mechanics it uses to do that detection, and shared hosting has never been named as a documented signal in that detection.

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The honest reason to treat this cautiously today is that shared IP hosting is now the overwhelming norm for entirely legitimate, unrelated websites, and has been for a long time. Cheap shared hosting plans put hundreds of unrelated customer sites on the same server and the same IP block by default. Content delivery networks and reverse proxies, Cloudflare being the most common example, route enormous numbers of completely unrelated domains through the same small set of edge IP addresses as a normal part of how they operate. Large VPS providers allocate customer instances out of IP pools where genuinely unrelated companies land on neighboring addresses purely by chance of provisioning order. None of that has anything to do with link manipulation, it's just how modern hosting infrastructure is built and priced.

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Put those two things together and the honest conclusion is this: a Class C match between two domains is a weak, unconfirmed, dated heuristic worth a second look, not proof of anything on its own. It's one input into a manual investigation, not a verdict a tool can hand you. If you see a cluster, the sensible next step is cross-referencing it against other, more reliable signals, who actually owns the domains via WHOIS, what hosting provider is involved and whether that provider is a large shared/CDN platform known to host thousands of unrelated customers, and whether the sites in question show other independent, unrelated red flags, not treating the shared block by itself as confirmation of anything.

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Shared hosting is also easier to weigh correctly next to the signals SEO practitioners actually rely on today for the same underlying question, whether a set of backlinks reflects genuine, independent endorsement or a manipulated network. Referring-domain diversity, how many separate root domains actually link to a site, anchor-text distribution, whether the wording of inbound links looks naturally varied or suspiciously templated, and basic content-quality review, whether a linking page reads like something written for a human audience or churned out purely to house a link, are all far more current and far more heavily weighted in how link quality actually gets assessed than shared hosting ever was. Shared Class C hosting sits at the older, weaker end of that list, useful as a quick first-pass flag on a batch of domains, not as a standalone conclusion.

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Realistic Use Cases

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Because this tool is built around pasting a whole list at once, with no hard limit on how many domains go into a single submission, it fits situations where you're already holding a list and want a fast first pass across all of it, rather than checking one domain in isolation. Some of the more common reasons people run this check:

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• Auditing your own link network's hosting diversity. If you run or maintain a set of blogs, satellite sites, or a private link network and want a quick sanity check on how spread out your own hosting footprint actually is, paste the full list in one batch and see how many land on the same block. Deliberately spreading a network across genuinely different hosts and providers, not just different IP addresses within the same host, is a common self-defense practice for anyone running multiple related properties.
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• Vetting a batch of domains before buying them from the same seller. Domain and expired-domain marketplaces sometimes sell lots where several listings turn out to be sitting on the same server, sometimes because the seller runs a small hosting operation for their own portfolio. Running the whole shortlist through the tool before you commit to a purchase surfaces that pattern in one pass instead of checking each listing individually.
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• Sanity-checking a link vendor's proposed placements. When a link-building vendor sends over a list of "guest post opportunities" or "placement sites," pasting that whole list into the tool is a quick way to see whether a suspicious number of them cluster on the same block, one input among several worth weighing before paying for links that might not be as independent as the pitch implies.
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• Evaluating a PBN or an established site portfolio before acquiring it. If you're considering buying an existing network of sites, or a single site that's part of a larger portfolio someone is selling off, checking the hosting footprint of the related domains is a routine part of due diligence, alongside WHOIS history, backlink profile review, and traffic verification.
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• Checking hosting migration results across a domain portfolio. If you've recently moved a batch of sites to new hosting, whether consolidating onto one provider on purpose or deliberately spreading them out, running the list through afterward confirms the migration actually landed where you expected, rather than trusting a dashboard that says "complete." A rushed migration provider can leave a handful of sites behind on the old server without flagging it anywhere obvious, and this is a fast way to catch that before it shows up as a support ticket instead.
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Class C Checking vs. Other IP/Domain Checks

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"Check the IP" gets used loosely to mean several genuinely different jobs, and it's easy to reach for the wrong tool if the terms get blurred together. Here's how this tool's job compares to the ones it's most often confused with:

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These aren't competing tools doing the same job differently, they answer different questions and are genuinely complementary. A Class C match tells you two domains share a network block. It doesn't tell you who owns either domain, that's a WHOIS question. It doesn't tell you what other sites live on that same IP, that's a reverse IP question. And it doesn't tell you which company is providing the hosting itself, that's a domain hosting checker's job. A real investigation into whether a set of domains is genuinely connected usually pulls from two or three of these, not one tool in isolation, which is exactly why the Related Tools section further down points to a couple of them.

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A typical investigation chains them together in order. You run a batch through the Class C IP Checker first, since it's the only one of the four built to handle a whole list at once. Once that pass flags a cluster, you move to the slower, one-at-a-time tools for confirmation: a reverse IP lookup on the shared address to see the full set of domains known to be sitting on it, not just the ones from your original list, a WHOIS lookup on each domain in the cluster to see whether the registrant details line up, and a hosting check to confirm whether the provider involved is a small, single-tenant setup or a large shared platform serving thousands of unrelated accounts. Skipping straight from "shared block" to a conclusion, without running any of the follow-up checks, is exactly the shortcut that produces false accusations against innocent, unrelated sites that simply happen to share a budget host or a CDN.

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Reading and Interpreting the Results Table

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The results table has four columns: a row number, the domain you submitted, the IP address it resolved to, and the Class C block, the first three octets of that IP. Reading it well comes down to a short, mechanical habit, not a complicated process.

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Scan the Class C Block column top to bottom, not the IP column. Two IPs can differ entirely in their last octet and still land in the same block, 203.0.113.14 and 203.0.113.201 are different IPs but the identical Class C block, 203.0.113. It's the repeated value in that last column you're looking for, not identical full IP addresses, which would mean something even more direct, the exact same server, rather than merely the same network neighborhood.

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If your list has more than a handful of domains, it helps to copy the table out into a spreadsheet and sort by the Class C column, since the tool itself doesn't group or sort for you, it only lists results in submission order. Sorting turns a scattered wall of rows into visible clusters at a glance.

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Watch for rows where the Class C value doesn't look like a real block, three dot-separated numeric segments. As covered above, a failed DNS lookup can occasionally leave leftover hostname text sitting in that column instead of a real value. Treat those rows as unresolved, not as a genuine result, and don't count them toward or against a cluster.

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And once you've spotted a genuine cluster, that's the start of the investigation, not the end of it. Per the honesty section above, a shared block on its own proves the domains share network infrastructure, nothing more automatically follows from that. The next step is cross-referencing: check WHOIS for shared registrant details, check what hosting provider actually operates that block (a domain hosting checker or reverse IP lookup helps here, both linked in Related Tools below), and consider whether the provider involved is a large shared host or CDN known to serve thousands of unrelated customers rather than a small operation. Only after that context is in hand does a shared block become a meaningful finding rather than a coincidence.

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A short worked example, using addresses reserved for documentation rather than any real, currently registered site (the 192.0.2.x, 198.51.100.x, and 203.0.113.x ranges are set aside by RFC 5737 specifically for this kind of illustration):

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Scanning the Class C Block column here, rows 1 and 3 (example.com and example.org) share 192.0.2, and rows 2 and 5 (example.net and example.biz) share 198.51.100, even though every domain has a fully different IP address. Row 4 stands alone on its own block. In a real batch this is exactly the pattern to look for, two clusters worth a closer look via WHOIS and a hosting check, and one domain that shares nothing with the rest of the list.

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How to Use This Tool

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This is the literal step-by-step process for running a check, separate from the technical explanation above of what happens once you submit.

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1. Find the large textarea near the top of this page, meant for a list of domains, one per line.
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2. Paste or type your list of domains into the textarea, one domain per line. There's no hard limit on how many you paste in.
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3. If you have a raw IPv4 address instead of a domain for any entry, you can paste that in on its own line too, it will pass through unchanged.
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4. Click the submit button below the textarea.
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5. Wait a moment while the tool resolves every valid line via DNS on the server side.
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6. Review the results table, showing row number, domain, resolved IP, and Class C block for every line that resolved successfully.
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7. Scan the Class C Block column specifically, not the IP column, for repeated values, per "Reading and Interpreting the Results Table" above.
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8. Note that any line that failed basic URL validation was silently dropped and won't appear as a row, if a domain you expected is missing, check it for typos or formatting issues.
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9. To check a different batch, clear the textarea and paste in a new list of domains.
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Related Tools

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A few other free tools on this site pair naturally with a Class C hosting check, depending on what you're trying to confirm next:

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• Once you've spotted a shared Class C block and want to know what other domains, if any, are known to resolve to the same IP, the Reverse IP Domain Checker is the natural next step, taking one IP and showing other domains associated with it.
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• If you need to know who actually registered the domains in a cluster, registrant name, registrar, creation date, and any contact details that aren't privacy-shielded, the Whois Checker pulls that registration data per domain.
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• To confirm which hosting company or infrastructure provider is actually behind a shared block, rather than assuming from the IP alone, the Domain Hosting Checker identifies the provider running a given domain.
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Frequently Asked Questions

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How many domains can I check at once?

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There's no hard limit on how many domains you can paste in, one per line, in a single submission. Very large batches will simply take longer to process since each domain needs its own live DNS lookup. See "What the Class C IP Checker Actually Does" above for the full bulk-paste workflow.

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Can I paste raw IP addresses instead of domains?

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Yes. Any line with a raw IPv4 address is passed through the resolution step unchanged, even though the textarea's placeholder text only mentions domains. See "How the Lookup Works Under the Hood" above.

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Does a shared Class C block mean two sites are owned by the same person?

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No, not on its own. Shared IP hosting is extremely common for completely unrelated, legitimate sites on shared hosts, CDNs, and VPS provider pools. Treat a match as worth a second look, not proof, and cross-reference with WHOIS and hosting data, see "Is Shared Class C Hosting Still a Real SEO Signal?" above.

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Why is a domain missing from my results even though I submitted it?

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Lines that fail basic URL validation are silently dropped and never appear as a row, with no error shown. Check the missing entry for typos or formatting issues, see "How the Lookup Works Under the Hood" above.

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Why does a row show text that doesn't look like a real IP or Class C block?

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That usually means DNS resolution failed for that hostname and leftover hostname text landed in the IP and Class C columns instead of a real result. Treat that row as unresolved, not as genuine data, see "Reading and Interpreting the Results Table" above.

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Is "Class C" still a real, current networking term?

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Formally, no. The classful addressing system that defined Class C was replaced by CIDR in 1993. "Class C" survives only as informal shorthand for a /24 block, the first three octets of an IP address. See "A Quick Refresher: What 'Class C' Actually Means" above.

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