Autonomous system
AS11609 ELAVON
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Elavon
enterprise legacy
ELAVON is Elavon, the merchant payment-processing business of U.S. Bancorp. This is a corporate payments network, not a service provider — the AS exists to route the company's own transaction infrastructure.
What it's used for
Card acquiring and merchant processing: the endpoints that merchants, gateways and partner banks connect to in order to authorise and settle payments. The address footprint is small and dense, and that fits — payments infrastructure is a modest number of hardened, highly available endpoints, not a large population of hosts. RIS sees 16 announced v4 prefixes carrying just 3,328 addresses, no IPv6, and 5 observed BGP neighbours. Multiple upstreams over a tiny address count is the classic multi-homed enterprise posture: redundancy is bought for availability, not for capacity.
Notable
The prefix registrants section is the thing to read here, and it exonerates rather than convicts. Most of the announced space (204.194.192.0/22, 204.194.196.0/22 and the /24s carved from them) is registered to U.S. BANCORP under US-BANCORP-EXTERNAL-4, not to Elavon; only 216.235.188.0/23 and 198.203.191.0/24 register to ELAVON directly. A different registrant from the announcing holder is only a warning sign when the registrants are unrelated. Elavon is a U.S. Bancorp subsidiary, so this is intra-group corporate history — the parent holds the address space, the subsidiary announces it.
Interesting
Nearly every prefix appears both as an aggregate and as its component /24s. Deliberate de-aggregation like that is a common anti-hijack and traffic-steering measure on networks where a routing outage means declined transactions.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-20, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 3.33K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11609- Registry name
- ELAVON
- Registrant
- ELAVON
- Abuse contact
- Terry.Powell@elavon.com
- Registered
- 1998-10-20
- Last changed
- 2021-06-09
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 16 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11609
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 94% registered · 15 of 16 announcements
- Route objects
- 14 naming AS11609
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-21. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere