Autonomous system
AS11940 DIRECTSCOM - Direct Supply, Inc.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Direct Supply, Inc.
enterprise legacy
DIRECTSCOM is Direct Supply, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a supplier of equipment, e-procurement and technology to senior-living and long-term-care operators. The ASN carries the company's own network and nobody else's.
What it's used for
RIS shows four IPv4 prefixes totalling 1,280 addresses, no IPv6, and four observed BGP neighbours. Four upstreams for five /24s worth of space is a deliberately resilient enterprise, which fits a business whose customers place orders through its systems: an outage is lost revenue, so the connectivity is over-provisioned relative to the address count. A provider network with this many customers would show far more neighbours.
The registrations are worth reading closely, because the prefixes come from three different sources and every one still resolves to the holder. 8.9.32.0/23 is registered as LVLT-DIRECT-17-8-9-32, org Direct Supply, Inc., a reassignment out of Level 3's 8/8. 12.43.32.0/24 is DIRECT-S753-32, org DIRECT SUPPLY, out of AT&T's 12/8. The 74.116.50.0/24 and 74.116.51.0/24 pair is registered as DIRECTSUPPLY directly to the company. Carrier-assigned space plus its own allocation, all in the holder's name: no third-party registrants, so nothing about this inventory suggests leased or brokered address space despite prefixes appearing under two large carriers' blocks.
Notable
The name is generic enough to mislead. Direct Supply is not a carrier or a wholesaler of connectivity but a healthcare-procurement company, and the network is sized and shaped exactly like one.
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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 2026-11-02, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11940- Registry name
- DIRECTSCOM
- Registrant
- Direct Supply, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- mike.weber@directsupply.com
- Registered
- 1999-02-09
- Last changed
- 2023-05-25
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11940
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS11940
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: 449 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-03. 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