Autonomous system
AS14052 STEPHENS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Stephens, Inc.
finance business enterprise
A netname with the date of the assignment baked into it.
What it's used for
- An investment firm's network. 1,536 addresses across five IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
45.128.84.0/23carries the netnameUK-STEPHENSEUROPE-20190711, registered to a European subsidiary with an abuse role as contact.- The other four blocks carry
STEPHE-1and name a support services network team. - Those four are
204.110.192.0/24,204.110.195.0/24,204.110.197.0/24and204.110.198.0/24, leaving three gaps in the run. - Fifteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- The eight digits at the end of the European netname are the date the block was assigned. That convention is standard in one registry and absent in the other, which is why the same company's records read so differently depending on which region issued them. It also means anyone can date the European arm's arrival on the internet from a registry field alone.
- The gaps between the four older blocks are the fingerprint of address space handed out one piece at a time over years, with other organisations taking the pieces in between. Four announcements where one would do is the cost.
- A financial firm publishing nothing in reverse DNS and running only two upstreams is behaving exactly as it should: the network exists to reach a small number of counterparties and market services, not to be found.
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 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 1.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14052- Registry name
- STEPHENS
- Registrant
- Stephens, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- networkadmin@stephenssupport.com
- Registered
- 2010-05-05
- Last changed
- 2026-08-18
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 33% valid · 2 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS14052
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 8 naming AS14052
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 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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