Autonomous system
AS11817 STAFFORDNET - Stafford Associates Computer Specialists, Inc.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Stafford Associates Computer Specialists, Inc.
hosting enterprise legacy
STAFFORDNET is Stafford Associates Computer Specialists, Inc., a long-established Long Island IT company in East Setauket, New York. It runs a certified data centre alongside a managed-services and web-development business: colocation, managed servers, offsite backup and disaster recovery, plus web design and hosting for local clients.
What it's used for
- Hosting and managed infrastructure for customers of that data centre, and the company's own network. The reverse DNS shows both halves at once: most sampled addresses carry the operator's own generic naming (
5.130.11.66.staffordnet.com, and a router namedrtr7206a.staffordnet.com), while one resolves towww.timecreations.com— a customer's website living directly in the AS. Space that carries third-party web presences is hosting space. - RIS sees 12 IPv4 prefixes / 3,072 addresses, no IPv6, and 7 observed neighbours. Twelve contiguous /24s and seven peers is a small regional provider: enough upstreams to stay reachable, far too little space to be an eyeball ISP or a carrier.
Notable
- The
66.11.128.0–66.11.140.0/24s are all ARIN-registered asSTAFFORDNET-BLK-1to Stafford Associates itself. RDAP lookups failed on the216.168.129/130/135/24s, which is a failed query and not a clearance — nothing about those three is established either way. - The rDNS naming convention is reversed-octet (
133.140.11.66.staffordnet.com), an older style that fits a network that has been carrying customers for a long time.
Interesting
- The handle reads like a network operator, and in a limited sense it is one, but the company behind it sells cabling, fibre splicing, PC repair and eCommerce development as readily as it sells rack space. The AS is the infrastructure end of a full-service local IT shop.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
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 2026-11-08, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 9 prefixes · 3.07K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11817- Registry name
- STAFFORDNET
- Registrant
- Stafford Associates Computer Specialists, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- hhinteman@staffordassociates.com
- Registered
- 1998-12-31
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 75% valid · 9 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS11817
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 12 of 12 announcements
- Route objects
- 21 naming AS11817
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: 455 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-09. 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