AS11048 DIGITALSTAKEOUT

DIGITALSTAKEOUT is DigitalStakeout, a cybersecurity company based in Suwanee, Georgia, north-east of Atlanta. Its AS is tiny and purpose-built: one IPv4 /24 (142.202.107.0/24), one IPv6 /48, and a single observed BGP neighbour.

What it's used for

DigitalStakeout runs online threat-detection and brand-risk monitoring, and — through its Securd division — a cloud-delivered protective DNS service that filters malicious and phishing domains for corporate endpoints. The routing evidence points straight at that product: the sampled address in the block answers to dns5.securd.com, so this space is carrying the company's own resolver infrastructure rather than customers, offices or general hosting. A dedicated AS with its own portable /24 is what a protective-DNS operator needs, because customers must point their resolvers at stable IP addresses that never change with the underlying hosting provider, and because an anycast resolver footprint has to be announced from the operator's own ASN.

Notable

The /24 is registered to DSTAKE-01 under DigitalStakeout's own ARIN org, so the space is self-held. Everything about the shape — one prefix, one neighbour, service-name rDNS — says a single company's service platform, not a network operator.

Interesting

ARIN's records date this ASN's registration to February 2020, so the low AS number is misleading: this is not a legacy 1990s network under a modern name, but a recycled number reissued to a security startup. Low AS numbers in this range are frequently second-hand.