Autonomous system
AS11840 VGRS-REGISTRY-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Verisign Infrastructure & Operations
enterprise hosting legacy
VGRS-REGISTRY-AS is one of Verisign's operational networks. Verisign runs the .com and .net registries and the DNS infrastructure behind them, and this AS carries the company's own service estate rather than anything sold as hosting to third parties.
What it's used for
- Verisign-operated servers and service infrastructure. RIS observes roughly 21 IPv4 prefixes carrying about 5,400 addresses, plus nine IPv6
/48s from2620:74::/32, against six observed neighbours. Every announced IPv4 prefix is a/24, scattered across several ARIN parents (199.16.80.0-ish,209.131.16x,216.87.x,72.13.x,64.6.x), which is what an anycast and multi-site service network looks like: many small, independently placeable blocks rather than one large aggregate. - The sampled reverse DNS is entirely first-party
verisign.com, with site-coded load balancer and router names. Those are datacenter service hosts, not user access lines.
Notable
- All the registrant names are Verisign's own corporate entities: Verisign Inc., VeriSign Infrastructure & Operations, and VeriSign Global Registry Services. Three different org names on one company's inventory is intra-group history, not third-party space, and the rDNS confirms the operator.
- Small address counts belie the importance of the space. Registry and DNS workloads need reach and redundancy, not address volume, so a critical piece of internet infrastructure can sit inside a few thousand addresses.
Interesting
- The
VGRShandle predates the current branding: it stands for VeriSign Global Registry Services, the arm that ran the.com/.netregistry business.
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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 2026-10-30, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 17 prefixes · 5.63K addresses IPv6 9 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 26 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11840- Registry name
- VGRS-REGISTRY-AS
- Registrant
- VeriSign Infrastructure & Operations
- Abuse contact
- netadmin@verisign.com
- Registered
- 1999-01-13
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 88% valid · 29 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 31 authorising AS11840
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 33 of 33 announcements
- Route objects
- 93 naming AS11840
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: 447 networks and 1,848 prefixes, as published 2026-10-31. 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