I just completed a tracert to a website I am trying to help the owner solve some issues he has and noticed the change in IP number for first hop. 
	Quote:
	
	
		| 10.26.240.1 
 Tracing route to gizemail.com [84.203.122.69]
 over a maximum of 30 hops:
 
 1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  WRT54GS [192.168.1.1]
 2    27 ms     5 ms     5 ms  10.26.240.1
 3    26 ms     9 ms     9 ms  oldh-t2cam1-a-v144.inet.ntl.com [213.104.83.65]
 
 4     6 ms    10 ms     8 ms  62.252.192.165
 5     9 ms    12 ms    10 ms  man-bb-a-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.175.1]
 6    15 ms    30 ms    21 ms  212.43.162.214
 7    16 ms    30 ms    13 ms  tele-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.184.2]
 8    23 ms    50 ms    21 ms  te4-3.mpd01.lon02.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.14
 .141]
 9    25 ms    23 ms    31 ms  te9-3.mpd02.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.
 17]
 10    24 ms    23 ms    24 ms  vl3493.mpd01.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.2
 .17]
 11    21 ms    22 ms    20 ms  smart-telecom.demarc.cogentco.com [149.6.80.254]
 
 12    24 ms    23 ms    21 ms  ge2-0-0-100.bas1.deg.dub.stisp.net [84.203.130.1
 26]
 13    41 ms    40 ms    38 ms  mail.gizagoo.com [84.203.122.69]
 
 Trace complete.
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 When you do a whois the ip you get
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		| Request: 10.26.240.1 
 OrgName:    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
 OrgID:      IANA
 Address:    4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
 City:       Marina del Rey
 StateProv:  CA
 PostalCode: 90292-6695
 Country:    US
 
 NetRange:   10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
 CIDR:       10.0.0.0/8
 NetName:    RESERVED-10
 NetHandle:  NET-10-0-0-0-1
 Parent:
 NetType:    IANA Special Use
 NameServer: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG
 NameServer: BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG
 Comment:    This block is reserved for special purposes.
 Comment:    Please see RFC 1918 for additional information:
 Comment:    http://www.arin.net/reference/rfc/rfc1918.txt
 RegDate:
 Updated:    2007-11-27
 
 OrgAbuseHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
 OrgAbuseName:   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
 OrgAbusePhone:  +1-310-301-5820
 OrgAbuseEmail:  abuse@iana.org
 
 OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
 OrgTechName:   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
 OrgTechPhone:  +1-310-301-5820
 OrgTechEmail:  abuse@iana.org
 
 # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2008-03-19 19:10
 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
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 So what is going on!
Yes since the phorm outbreak I feel like am getting paranoid on who is watching me...